balsam-knot

Updated: May 11, 2025

For water he had to go some little way below the lip of the plateau; but carrying a blazing balsam-knot he had nothing to fear from the beasts that lay in ambush about the spring. They slunk away sullenly at the approach of the waving flame. That night Grôm slept securely, with three fires before his door.

Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts - In the Morning of Time