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“What about the language issue?” Leonid pressed “I thought you said that none of the villagers spoke English or even pidgin”

“That was our iers must,” Remi reasoned “Even if they don’t have a lot of contact with the outside world, they have to have some, and if they want to do business, they have to speak so it Plus, we have the hty Lazlo with us—master of a thousand dialects”

Re to the trail that led to the bay as they passed it “There’s the bay road The village is about threeto the survivor, it took them a full day to haul the treasure to the cave”

Leonid did a quick calculation “What, exactly, are the directions that Lazlo found hidden in the diary?”

Salanced at Lazlo in the rearview raphic memory?”

“Aheoat’s head, then into enemy territory to the small waterfall The way lies beyond the falls’”

Leonid shook his head “Seriously? That’s e’re going on?”

“He obviously intended it to be a reminder to himself, not a series of directions to be followed But it should be enough,” Remi said “We’ve worked from more obscure clues than this”

“Right,” Leonid snorted “So we have to find a village that’s no longer there, which may or oat’s head is, then find a waterfall Assu it’s still there Somewhere beyond that, which could be ten meters or ten kilometers, there’s a cave Whichwith ht?”

A deafening roar of thunder exploded overhead andvisibility to no more than twenty feet

“You left out where we’re going to probably have to cahts,” Saot a couple of tents and some supplies”

“And plenty of bug spray,” Remi added

“In this soup?” Lazlo asked “I say, nobody said anything about ca I’d rather hoped to try the blackened ahi for dinner tonight Looked s on the menu”

“Then there’s an incentive to work fast,” Salanced off to his left and slowed “I think this is the trail to the village Remi?”

She peered through the rain at an unle “Could be It’s hard to tell”