"Now that you're almost to Yggdrasil, you can sense something is about to happen, something big; the foreboding of it roils around in your gut like one of Rab's dreaded sandwiches. You want to be excited about what happens next—it's the World Tree, after all; how many people on Erdrea can say they've seen it up close?—but you're so mixed up right now, not just about Terran, but about everything; and you just can't shake the feeling that it's all about to go to hell; that you're going to lose everything all over again; that you've waited too long to—
—To what, exactly?"
In Arboria and the First Forest, Erik confronts his destiny, and his choices, and his feelings... and Terran.