Journey · Book 08 · Sam age 17

The Far Side of the Pass

The journey becomes too large for one person to verify alone

The Far Side of the Pass book art
Book 08 · Year 8 of the journey

The Far Side of the Pass

Can I trust evidence I did not personally gather?

A twenty-one-day expedition crosses the High Pass and basin toward Creston and Hollis. The field work is only half the challenge. The other half is learning to trust evidence gathered, preserved, and remembered by other people.

Sam’s progression

Sam moves from personally checking everything to building a reliable chain of provenance, delegation, and review.

Reader map after Book 8

What the known network looks like now

Reader map after The Far Side of the Pass
Schematic · not to scaleMap grows book by book