In the narrow Saint Peru Valley, people suddenly and unanimously stopped in their tracks.
They looked at the ground, where a layer of floating dust was slowly settling, the grass and trees gently swaying, and as if it were an illusion, an almost imperceptible tremor was sweeping across the Valley.
People raised their heads to look into the distance, the Forest silent, yet in an instant, the trees rustled violently. Many people screamed as they ran out of their tents, frantically looking around, while others, shocked, watched as a flock of birds took to the sky en masse above the Forest.
The deafening sound of Flapping drowned out all other noises, accompanied only by the calls of the birds.
For a moment, the Valley was packed with people, each one staring dumbfounded at the scene—the six stone monuments atop the brown Rock Mountain at either end of the Valley, relics of the Xinsas Era, standing silently over this ancient Valley for a thousand years.