Chapter 1
Contains spoilers
Summary
- The chapter focuses on a girl named Livira, who was named after a weed.
- Despite her harsh surroundings in a place called the Dust, Livira is resilient, tough and relentless, much like the weed.
- Livira proves her strength by fighting a boy named Acmar and refusing to stay down despite his superior size.
- In the Dust community, Livira is known for her indefatigable spirit and wins the fight by not giving up.
- Livira has a special interest in a weed-like material called wind-weed, which an old woman named Ella can skillfully mould into different shapes.
- Livira also has a fascination for a well, which she believes connects them to a different world that is filled with water and other unknown things.
- Although their community lives in a constant state of scarcity and hardship, Livira holds out hope for going to the city someday.
- Livira spots a lone figure in the distance, marking the arrival of an unknown person in the Dust.