Isle of the Monsters
Isle of the MonstersAsahi jumped out of the boat with the bow rope when he heard the hull scraping the lake’s rocky bottom. He waded ashore and secured the rope around a large boulder. Nali looked around before gazing up at the steep cliff ahead of them. The sheer stone wall rose thousands of feet into the air. From this vantage point, clouds shielded most of the mountain from view.
She walked over to the boat’s starboard side and flipped a rope ladder over the gunwale for Asahi to climb back into the boat. He gave her a wry grin of thanks. She stepped back when he pulled himself over the side.
“This looks like a dead end. I assume this is the mountain the mirror showed us,” he said.
She nodded. “Yes.”
He tilted his head back and looked up as far as he could. The
