He stopped by a spreading pagafa tree on a small rise overlooking the pool of the oasis.

She recoiled from the pagafa tree in horror, flailing with her arms to shake the creatures loose.

The trunks of the pagafa tree were no thicker around than Sorak's thigh, but they were immensely strong.

From the area all around Torian's camp, small, brightly colored critic lizards began to converge on the pagafa tree.

The countryside here consisted of sandy, rocky soil, dotted with desert scrub brush and the occasional small pagafa tree.

As Screech approached still closer, he saw where Torian sat under the spreading, twisted, blue-green branches of the small pagafa tree.

The graceful fronds of a pagafa tree shaded a large fountain, surrounded by stone benches intricately decorated with glazed blue and yellow tiles.

Loud, rustling sounds ahead and to their left, in a small grove of pagafa trees.

It was a remarkably pleasant looking village, with gently winding streets and well-groomed pagafa trees providing shade and color.

"Enough!" shouted Torian from his resting place by the pagafa tree.

And a moment later, they reached the grove of pagafa trees, where Kara waited for them, having shapeshifted back to her natural form.

The isolated stands of pagafa trees became more sparse, as well, and grew lower and more twisted than those they had seen before.