Chapter 7Niall didn’t expect the beginning of their journey into the mountains to be any more difficult than their travels from Misthaven to Highvale. After all, the weather was the same: snow, sometimes heavy, other times light or non-existent, with strong winds or breezes, depending.
What he hadn’t counted on was the fact they were soon in a pass with tall rock walls on either side. True, at first the walls were separated by wide swaths of snow-covered land with a few trees scattered about, primarily at the foot of each mountainside where they were better protected from strong storms. Most of them were pines, firs, or spruce, although there were a few twisted trees which would have had leaves, not needles, had the climate been temperate.
The road, such as it was, was covered with deep
