17/18 The horde was animated with a single emotion, that of fear. The bluff-side swarmed with the Folk, all gazing and pointing into the northeast. I did not know what it was, but I scrambled all the way up to the safety of my own high little cave before ever I turned around to see. It was the biggest animal I had ever seen. And yet, somehow, I seemed to gather from the conduct of the Folk that the smoke itself was not the danger. |