Then the crowd saw the horses coming towards them and they shouted and waved to the leader at whose side she was riding.
He raised his hand in a half-salute and there was a faint smile on his lips. It made him seem not quite so formidable as he had done before, but Orina knew that he was frightening and dominating.
Despite what she hoped was a positive air of self-assurance, she was actually feeling very nervous.
‘I will pay anything he demands,’ she decided, ‘but only on condition that he sets me free immediately.’
The horses made their way through the crowd of people squatting on the ground and then they wound their way through endless stones and boulders until they reached the foot of the mountain.
Orina then saw that there were several huge holes in the rock surface and she guesse
