A dark angel CHAPTER XII The rock cited in the message was a little hill beside a mountain, not too far from the village, upon which there was a tiny obelisk painted in carmine red. Osondel was forced to wait for three weeks, resting in Aggiukebin, before the sky turned cloudy, and two more days before rain fell over the dale. Furthermore, it took another day before the sky was torn asunder with lightning and thunder. Thus, after twentyfour days since the nailing of the scroll in the square, my father came to the place appointed for the duel. He came there with his escort, but he asked his men to assist from a little afar, because he would rather stay alone with his opponent when the latter had come. Strong in his training of many years in the refined martial arts of the Pirin people,

