Torben peered at the yellowing document covered in thin spidery lines of black ink, most of which made no sense. Large parts of the map within the border of Bar-Dendra Forest were blank, but the area where the others focused their attention, was well relatively sketched out.
It was the first time that he’d ever seen a map; there’d been no need of them in Burndale. No one had ever ranged far enough to go beyond common knowledge regarding the roads and paths surrounding Bywater.
Gwilym’s podgy finger blotted some map features. ‘Here’s Gallenford, about half a mile within the borders of Bar-Dendra.’
‘Not a particularly safe place to settle a community,’ Antauros commented.
‘No, it wasn’t,’ Gwilym agreed. ‘It was raided by Lupines nigh on a month.’
‘Not a soul was left alive,’ Eleusia add
