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Show o'ernight," said Dr'Anya into the girl's ear. Janni nodded again. "There are places every few hundred meters up on the top-caves." She cast her mind back to the caves she had used for overnights. The two ruffians following their trail must needs stop, too. Marry, they must needs stop, indeed! They could fall to their deaths tried they, foolishly; to go on. And yet, held they human life in such contempt, the Four Kingdoms folk. Dr'Anya frowned. Might they continue on, despite the d a r k . . . t he danger? Dr'Anya remembered a cave, a full deep one, a fair labyrinth, with more than the usual number of side chambers. They could, mayhap, reach it before TwinSet. Then, if the knight and his squire did follow them, and did happen to live through i t . .. The JackPonies had raised up from their pool and turned away from the wind. Janni and Dr'Anya mounted and the four of them continued on up the trail. Dr'Anya was coaxing her mount into a narrow side chamber located twenty-some meters inside a deep, steep walled cave. They had reached the place just as the Twins disappeared behind the cliffside, plunging the cave mouth into darkness. Janni was lighting their way with a handglow. "There," said Dr'Anya, her voice echoing hollowly inside the little chamber- The opening had been difficult to find, and the swelling stomachs of the JackPonies had scraped the walls on the way in. And what a quantity of coaxing it had taken to get the animals to enter the passage! The women had passed four caves before this one, and Dr'Anya had very 180 |
