CHAPTER 14
Tak Tuzap groped with his bare foot for the next slick rock, careful to keep hold of the cliff wall with both hands. The guards at the top of the gorge were distracted by the boats trying to run the Seguchi Norwan, the great Gates of the Seguchi River. He’d counted on that, sure that they wouldn’t be watching halfway down the southern cliff for movement in the dark.
The shouts that trailed up faintly from the roar of water below him betrayed at least one overturned and destroyed boat. They’re dead. Told them it wouldn’t work.
He didn’t look down. Slide one foot, and then the next. Don’t let the pack pull you away from the rock face. Keep the wet braid from getting in your face.
I guess they couldn’t have gone this route with the little kids. Should’ve stayed and waited. Yeni
