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"Go soon," said Shevros "Look"

Torches had reached the bottoan to search for a way to climb while the rest followed the course of the stream Cursed Ones spread everywhere, as nu into life Pink painted the eastern horizon, the brush of dawn

"Will Adica reach Shu-Sha’s camp safely?" Alain whispered, horrified that he had let her be carried away He should have gone with her to see her to safety Yet Sorrow, lying beside hie licked his hand

"Nothing is certain," agreed Agalleos, "but theirs was the safest, swiftest path Oshidos is a strong fighter, and they’ll go anyway through the labyrinth The Cursed Ones have never caught any of our people in there"

With an effort, Alain buried his fear What use would he be to Adica if he got hi about her? "Very well North of the river, if that is the only path I have co ith these comrades, and I won’t abandon them now"

"Crazy outlander," muttered Maklos

"I can see they are powerful spirit guides The gods have woven a alleos pushed hiet out of Thorn Valley we’ll have to go by way of the Screa Rocks Shevros, you lead the way Maklos, you’ll take the rear You must set the trap and follow by the ladder"

Maklos seen of it afterward to his adot back safely

So began the scra boulders and scrub for cover, and after that dropping down into the next canyon over where an escarple of vegetation to form a landmark Thorn Valley was aptly narowth sporting thorns as long as the hounds’ claws There was no way they could get through that

Shevros vanished into one of the cavelets worn out of the pillars "Go," said Agalleos, glancing behind theeline behind thely concealed where a fallen boulder see walls, lay a tunnel Shevros had shinnied partway down; Alain could see his shield, glinting where he’d strung it on his back Alain alleos held him back