CHAPTER 3GNOME MOUNTAIN
(Enukin Ingik)
Short and cute are the Gnomes,
Playful tricksters under Nome
Can be greedy love of gold,
And dwarf haters legends told
Heavenly Rod from World Tree,
But Gnome Chief stubborn he
The little gnome put his foot up against the stone symbol and with a groan the side of the stone wall swung inward revealing a passage with stairs leading down. Atungitok slipped his sock and boot back on and joked, that even if a giant had ever found this spot they could not open it, at least not without a gnomes foot that is. He led the way down. Amazingly the walls seemed to absorb light from the top of the mountain and even though the stone looked dark and solid on the surface it transferred light downward into the depth of the mountain through quartz veins. It
