Chapter fourteen
The fight with the leemThat night we took turn and turn about to keep watch; but we saw or heard no more sign of the monsters.
In the morning we ate the rest of our last night’s meal and drank cold water and prepared to set off.
The land presented a fair prospect of rolling tree-clad hills and tumbling streams and open glades. No distant views were easily obtainable but far ahead I thought I could make out the distant glint of snow-capped peaks. We did not follow any of the tracks and occasional roads that crisscrossed the land, and we avoided the easier paths running beside rivers. In this I took Naghan’s advice. We would eventually reach the point at which he would turn off down the Valley of the Twin Spires. He had traversed this way only once before, and then in com
