The berry of the
Mountain Ash is so very
poisonous, that to even look upon it is to infect one’s self with
cancer of the eye and of the soul. Therefore, understandably, it is only
harvested by the blind.
To
ingest this small orange fruit is to violently rip one’s soul from its
mortal coil and fling it headlong across the universe in
a never-ending nightmare of limitless inertia and madness.
Despite the horrifying effect it has on higher vertebrates, the berry of the Mountain Ash bakes into a lovely pie
with a very pleasing aroma, and is a favorite complementary dessert for the unruly and unworthy guests of blind innkeepers along the western border.