Chapter elevenDust and fragments tumbled away below. Pausing, I did look down. By this time I was half way up. The ledges slanted from top left to lower right, and the ground looked a good long way off. Dust was already clogging up my hooter, and I sneezed, and took a firm hold, and so swiped away at my nose. Damn dust!
The climb in itself was not particularly arduous. Certainly, it held none of the difficulties I’d experienced before in climbing into danger. I just hoped there were no eyes up there spying on me.
Square cut blocks, mortared together, came into view and I had to skirt around them carefully. My judgment was that this was an outbuilding, possibly a defensive work. Where I needed to go was higher, much higher.
The twin suns of Scorpio moved across the cloudless sky. Some of
