CHAPTER 4Meztli glanced out over the valley as she led Nelli around a sharp bend down the zigzag mountain trail. Far below, something moving flashed in the late afternoon sunshine. She stopped and strained her eyes. What was it?
Cualli who was leading Nacho, the other llama, came up and stood beside her. "Is something wrong?" she asked.
"Nothing I guess. I just saw a flash of light in the afternoon sun." She pointed out. "Look, there it is."
The flash appeared to come from a gap in a row of rocks in an area where the trail opened out to a flat lookout area. The trail narrowed again on the far side before it continued on out of sight down the mountain. The area was below the snow line and appeared brown and bare compared with the snow that was still around them. Nothing else was visible
