Chapter Twenty-Five
Welcome
stared in shock at the festivities going on around them as they passed through the thirty-foot-high wooden gates and advanced on horseback toward the mountain. This wasn’t so much a summit conference as it was one giant party, complete with food carts and games of chance. There were also a multitude of vendors hawking their wares. The place was like Alta when they celebrated the summer solstice. When families from other compounds, some as far away as Lo Breton, which was three days’ ride from New , came to enjoy the festivities.
led them to the base of the cliff where an older man with salt and pepper hair stood waiting in front of what she assumed was the main lodge. It was carved out of the cliff face, like all the other structures above it. studied the i
