The Houses of Wind

  1. she stands between them. A reference to passing greystone is also glimpsed when he enters the Fae from one of the deepest and oldest parts of the Eld, not far from Felurian’s pool.
  2. Bast’s stone near the lightning tree is single and leaning over enough for small children to climb the leaning edge and jump from the top. ‘No-one taller than the stone’ is the rule. There is also a stream nearby.

The results of the boys research tell us variously

9. Of pagan frolics at a pair of matched stone monoliths with a third across the top marking a doorpost. One usually reliable source claims this arch can be a door to Felurian and the Fae realm at certain times and also…

10. Speculations of them marking roads, despite some being found on the side of mountains or river bottoms where no road could be

Then we have Arlidens part-remembered poetry.

‘Like a drawstone even in our sleep

standing stone by old road is the way

to lead you ever deeper into fae.

Laystone as you lay in hill or dell

Greystone leads to …’

This appears to be a list of instructions, with an appalling lack of period and of terrible meter. It needs music to carry its message properly. But the words themselves may well apply to all the written greystone reports as the limited information we have on them does tell us of their geographical positioning and they all fit nicely into three categories of old road, hill or dell.

, Number 10 is a catch-all location for other, unspecified greystones. Either high on mountainsides with the advantage of a wide view (hill) or low in safe places to rest near water (dell).

Line 2: Standing stone (single) next to an old road gets a perfect tick with numbers 1, 3, & 6.

Line 4: Laystones are found Lying in a pair on a hill, or singly in a dell with numbers 4 & 5.

Number 2 has both kinds in combination. It is in a small wood behind a wayside inn, the dell has become a pond. It is a safe place for travelers to rest. One stone for each bit of poem.

In the Lightning Tree, Bast reveals a secret about the Fae when they visit mortal.

‘When they do come, they like some places better than others. They like wild places. Secret places. Strange places.Places with connections to the raw, true things which shape the world. Places that are touched by fire and stone. Places that are close to water and air.

Which nicely applies to all our greystones, and especially to the central line in Arliden’s poem.

Numbers 2,7 and 9 are our doorways of the Fae realm.

Bast’s own stone is strange. It obviously was once upright but has fallen slightly, though whether through time, design or accident is not known. Lightning perhaps had a hand, but it is off in the middle of nowhere and so a simple sign of showing it’s age is most likely. Bast himself is fae and has made it his special place, on a hilltop, near water, by old stone, and with the Lightning Tree itself which has the added bonus of being ‘touched by fire’.

‘When all four come together…’

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