You may wonder--does purple grass exist, or do I just love all things purple so much that I invented it? No, it's real. Until the flowers fully open, this grass is purple. Long ago, I rode through a stand of it in Max's pasture.
In The Wind Witch, when Kellis is asked where he comes from, the answer is Vossli. He says it with the longing of an exile who knows he can never go home again. And then he shares that the name means "the purple grassland--but ti's not called that anymore."
You may wonder--does purple grass exist, or do I just love all things purple so much that I invented it? No, it's real. Until the flowers fully open, this grass is purple. Long ago, I rode through a stand of it in Max's pasture.
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