Chapter 14, Saunders Coleson:
Clear of the lava tube, Saunders knew the pair had no choice. The direction they traveled from held the danger of the insect monsters. There was no doubt they would be behind them, if they didn’t stalk them still.
That left following the stream downhill, north. East and west were blocked by the spine of the mountains. Without a pass through the heights, he was certain the snow would be too deep and the cliffs too sheer for the pair and a horse to make it over.
When Alegria didn’t argue, he took that as tacit approval of his plan. In this case, the unknown seemed less dangerous than the known. He patted the belongings he carried, taking a mental inventory. There wasn’t much. The clothes he wore, his spear, and a small hollowed limb of the strange yellow dirt
