Chapter 33
More delays! This was just what Oric and his band did not need, and yet it was what they faced right now. They had made good speed with their rushed march across the plains of Umbria and arrived at the mountain pass in three days. Upon their arrival, however, they were greatly disappointed to hear Bandor’s report that the pass was all blocked up by rockfall. “Probably caused by melting during spring,” he had said, but the cause did not really matter to Oric. All that mattered to him was that the pass was unusable. Foiled by rotten luck again! Upon seeing his disappointment, several of the Red Claw who had been against the endeavour from the start now voiced their doubts, albeit quietly to each other. Some, like Mara and Lorraine, were less cautious about it and grinned maliciously at Ori
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