CHAPTER 20
Penrys and Zandaril left two mornings later. The first pair of scouts had been cast off the morning after the meeting, headed southwest to a little-used pass into Song Em.
Tak Tuzap had spent that day advising all the potential scouts about clothing, pack horses or mules, and especially directions for recognizing the blazes that marked the passes. He couldn’t help the men who would try to enter from the north over the low ridges of the Craggies, except to give them the names of the passes they should look for.
“I’ve never been there myself,” he’d told them, “but we do get traders that way, so the people on the north side should know where they are. All the famous ones will have roads leading to them, but some will be barely visible, starting at the back of someone’s farm and
