Chapter 26For a while, as Hyrald and the others moved along the valley, the peak that Thyrn had indicated as his goal disappeared from view behind a ridge. The sun kept breaking through the clouds fitfully, promising a warm and pleasant journey, but constantly failed to fulfil it. Its uncertainty seemed to pervade the group.
Gradually the valley turned and the mountain slowly came into sight again. Even to the Arvens, unfamiliar with mountains, it looked odd. Hyrald spoke the common thought.
‘It looks out of place,’ he said. ‘Almost as though it’s just been dropped there, blocking the valley.’
‘Or pushed up from underground,’ Nordath added.
Endryk just looked at it unhappily.
‘What’s the matter?’ Adren asked him bluntly.
He shrugged. ‘I don’t know. It still reminds me of something bu
