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"If ertips can find the spots on a pair of dice, they can certainly tell the difference between gut and linen twine," Silk replied

"All right We'll start here" Lelldorin attached one end of a ball of twine to the arrow "I'll go this way, and you go that"

"Right" Silk tied the end of his ball of string to the same shaft He turned to Garion and Durnik "Don't overdo it with the water, you two," he said "I don't particularly want to get buried in a roping for the next arrow Lelldorin touched Garion's shoulder briefly, then disappeared in the opposite direction

"The ground's completely soaked now," Durnik oing to flush ain, they sent their probing thoughts out through the sodden earth of the hillside, located the layer of rock, and then swept back and forth along its irregular upper side until they located the first fissure Garion felt a peculiar sensation as he began to worht down that narrow crack where the water ca soh invisible arers at its end to reach down into the fissure "Have you got it?" he whispered to Durnik

"I think so"

"Let's pull it apart then," Garion said, bracing his will

Sloith an effort that made the beads of sweat stand out on their foreheads, the two of them forced the fissure open A sharp, muffled crack reverberated up from beneath the sodden slope of the hillside as the rock broke under the force of their combined wills

"Who's there?" a voice deh?" Garion whispered, ignoring that alar up"There's a lot of pressure under that layer of rock Let'sca whistle passed overhead as the line fro hooks arched up and over the north wall The hook ainst the inside of the wall, and then there was a grating sound as the points dug in

Crouched low, Garion and Durnik y squelching sound their feetbeneath the earth for the next fissure When Lelldorin came back to rejoin them, they had already opened twobeneath the saturated slope; behind and above the sound as the soupy mud oozed out of the hillside to cascade in a brown flood down the snowy slope

"I got all the way to the end of the line of arrows," Lelldorin reported "The string's in place on this side"

"Good," Garion said, panting slightly fro the troops into place"

"Right" Lelldorin turned and went off into the swirl of a sudden snow flurry

"We'll have to be careful with this one," Durnikunder the soil "There are a lot of fractures in the rock here If we pull it too far apart, we'll break up the whole layer and turn loose a river" Garion grunted his agreeers of his will out toward the fissure

When they reached the last of their subterranean well springs, Silk ca no sound as he h the slush