Chapter 1: Beneath the Verdant Veil Before dawn’s first light pierced the canopy, the Viridian Sundew Grove exhaled a phosphorescent haze, its jade-tinted vines entwined with ruby creepers, their petals aflame with emerald dew that glistened like liquid starfire. Crystal ferns unfurled like fractal lace alongside opal-infused boulders, their surfaces shimmering with captured moonlight....