Chapter eight
“Save your breath for breathing!”With our usual wary step, Seg and I walked along following the course of the river downstream. Nath remained with the women and the Rumay fanatics went upriver. We would then circle the cavern seeking egress.
“Y’know, Seg, there has to be a reason for a place like this.”
“You mean a place of beauty among all the horrors of the Coup Blag?”
“Right. This is not quite the sort of cavern we’re accustomed to finding deep in the heart of a mountain.”
“We’re well down underground here, all right. But I rather fancy this cavern is still in the mountain above the outside ground level.”
“And that causes an idea to form, perhaps?”
“Aye, by Vox, an idea of some fraughtness.”
“I agree.”
“Well, my old dom, if it is the way, it is the way. By the Vei
