β Scribed by Lynne Reid Banks
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
From Dakin's bedroom window, the farthest-away mountain looks quite close, its peak capped with pink and purple and green snow rising above the pine wood just beyond the village.
No one knows why the snow isn't white, because no one has ever been there; for though the mountain looks close, however far you travel it never gets any closer.
Until one morning, Dakin is woken by a voice calling, summoning her through the wicked wood and over the sea of spikes, to fight the evil on the mountain and set it free...
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