Crecheling
“Dyan pointed.
A cluster of sheep tumbled away from the road and down towards the river. Eirig turned and followed after them. Dyan was about to remind him to try to stay exactly behind the sheep, but he was clever enough that he didn’t need the warning.
Jak raced in a quick loop around the road, hallooing to scatter the little herds in all directions, and then he was on their tail. The ground dropped steeply down into the Snaik Valley. The river’s edge was thick with straight-trunked, silver-ba...rked trees, and Eirig headed for them.
The trees would help, Dyan thought, but they would only add a small delay. Jak pulled forward beside her and Eirig, as the last of the bleating sheep fell away, and they crashed into the thicket. They slowed their horses to a brisk walk.
Dyan heard shouting in Narl’s canyon, probably in the meadow. They had gained a few minutes, she thought, and she tried not to let it go to her head.
“We have to get among other people!” Dyan told her companions. “Or animals.MoreLess
A cluster of sheep tumbled away from the road and down towards the river. Eirig turned and followed after them. Dyan was about to remind him to try to stay exactly behind the sheep, but he was clever enough that he didn’t need the warning.
Jak raced in a quick loop around the road, hallooing to scatter the little herds in all directions, and then he was on their tail. The ground dropped steeply down into the Snaik Valley. The river’s edge was thick with straight-trunked, silver-ba...rked trees, and Eirig headed for them.
The trees would help, Dyan thought, but they would only add a small delay. Jak pulled forward beside her and Eirig, as the last of the bleating sheep fell away, and they crashed into the thicket. They slowed their horses to a brisk walk.
Dyan heard shouting in Narl’s canyon, probably in the meadow. They had gained a few minutes, she thought, and she tried not to let it go to her head.
“We have to get among other people!” Dyan told her companions. “Or animals.MoreLess
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