What the wind carries
James can't seem to try. Not at school, not at sports, not really anywhere. The grown-ups mean well — work hard, they say. Follow your heart, get through the boring parts and the rest will make sense.
None of it makes sense.
Then James hears the story of his great-grandfather: an explorer who spent his whole life looking for a golden seed. Plant it, and it just might grow into a tree with leaves of pure gold. With a tree like that, he'd never have to worry about being good at anything.
But it was just a story. James was just a kid.
Until the cat started talking, and they stepped into the wind.
On the other side of imagination, mountains tell stories. Flying isn't about having wings. And his grandmother's cat, it turns out, has plenty to say, starting with a plan: go find the seed.