Chapter 150

• Olivia POV
• Three months after we saw the humans off with their furious but quite effectively chained captive, I sat on a bench watching the groundskeepers put the finishing flourishes on the labyrinth at the end of the meditation walk.
• The air was redolent with freshly tilled soil and shorn grass. New flowers, not yet blooming, had been planted in their circle slightly outside the ring of benches, and I saw some honey bees were flying over them expectantly. They would need to wait a bit longer.