'There will be a causeway.' Tuath joined them, holding Eileen by the hand, just as if she had not attempted to perforate him with arrows and he had never threatened violence on her diminutive person.
'There is,' Melcorka said. 'The boats never go all the way around the loch.' She pointed to a wind-twisted tree that stood a few yards from the bank. 'You see that rowan there?'
'Of course.' Tuath sounded annoyed by the question.
'The boats stop opposite that tree and turn back, and when they reach that prominent rock there, the one with the green lichen on the east side, they stop again.'
'So the causeway is somewhere between these two points,' Bradan said. 'It will be crooked, like Hector's, and may have a gap in the middle as well.'
'With a crooked causeway and a guard, the gate will b
