“It was as if in the whole world there was no more than the stone mountains, cloaked in snow, and the blue sky, and the two of them, himself and Griff. All that moved were mists of snow, raised up by the rushing avalanche, and caught now in the tireless winds of the high mountains. Griff’s teeth showed in his face, and he was smiling broadly. “We lived, Oriel.” Oriel stood, silent, dazzled by the brightness of the sun and the memory of the mountainside, moving. “And now which way?” Griff asked. ...He sounded untroubled by what had gone before, or what might come. Cold rose up around them, as heat rises from a fire. Boldly, as if all of this coldness couldn’t reach it, the sun shone down. “To that middle peak, where he said there is a pass,” Oriel said. “That’s my thought,” he added. “What’s yours?” “I follow you,” Griff said. “We will have, I think, no chance for another choice,” Oriel told Griff, not wanting to conceal the danger. “We haven’t much time, either,”MoreLessRead More Read Less
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