disappearing for years.
Trees had been cleared for roads, development, and farmland.
The villagers had never considered it important.
Thomas had.
Because he understood what those trees had been doing.
They had been slowing the wind.
Breaking its momentum.
Changing its path.
And now the forest was almost gone.
Thomas Had Seen What Was Coming
Before his death, Thomas had drawn a map of the valley.
He marked the mountain ridges.
The remaining forest.
The areas where trees had been removed.
And the places where wind would now have a
