Son Of The Tree: ~ ~~ ~ "A vast, breathing, sappy mass; a trunk five miles in diameter, and twelve miles from the great gnarled roots to the ultimate bud-the 'Vital Exprescience' in the cant of the Druids. The Tree ruled the horizons, shouldered aside the clouds, and wore thunder and lightning like a wreath of tinsels. It was the soul of life, trampling and vanquishing the inert, an Joe understood how it had come to be worshipped by the first settlers of Kyril. ~ ~~ ~ For Joe Smith, the sight of the tree was the beginning of an experience that would forever change his life. He had journeyed into space in search of a man, but found instead the Tree. A Tree which held the power of life-and-death over millions of slaves!