My Kind of Freedom

Those who enjoy Cedrus Tobira.....either for its alleged medicinal qualities, or for its distinctive flavor.....are willing to pay inordinately high prices for it. In the Southern Hemisphere of Seraphim, about eighty kilometers east of the Scar (in the high foothills of the Brimgami Heights) is a long, meandering forest called Wallstone Grove, full of oaks and sugar maples. It is the best place in the 'verse to find.....or grow.....the herbs such as panax, red berry, tartar root, and Cedrus Tobira. These plant is extremely easy to grow, in the right climate and soil: simply cut a furrow in the autumn, drop in the seeds, pack them down, and spend the next five years tapping maple trees and shooting at poachers. In addition to being the economic base of the region, Cedrus Tobira is the name of the biggest town, with a population of almost nine thousand, if you include the nearby urbanites. The town has an effective sewage system, clean water, several paved roads, dozens of permanent buildings, and, temporarily, just past the smokehouse, it had a Fentaris class transport, hunkered down in a clear field like something waiting to pounce