Time rolled slowly on, each day a disappointment.
Every new stretch of mountain face was tedious; however Einith found himself enjoying the time. Lasra opened up more about his dwarf and Tae was a wild and warm presence in both his bed and on the road. If there was a better way to conduct a boring search, Einith hadn’t heard of it.
About a week into their task, among the third group of mines, the stone they were looking for finally showed.
“Here!” Lasra crowed.
Tae and Einith crowded around Lasra, excited. So close to the end of their journey, if this was, in fact, the tunnel they needed. Einith prayed to the benevolent Stone that this was it.
Lasra poked a blue speck in the rock face, no bigger than a thumbnail. It absolutely was not the stone that Lasra had told them of, but how cou
