CHAPTER 20Two days later and after much preparation, Meztli stood in the freezing air outside the now closed cave and smiled to herself. There was an air of confidence as the thirty-two children and twelve adults assembled with their line of llamas that were loaded down with gear, not to mention satchels of gold sealed beneath the other supplies.
As usual, apart from those assembled the plateau looked desolate, the priests had been buried and other signs of the camp were mainly gone with rubbish and other debris buried in the long trench dug for the bodies. The shallow grave was now no more than a line of raised stones as it was too difficult to dig a deep trench. Zolin had erected a T shaped pole at one end with two knotted strings attached. As he had explained to Quwan and Runtu who had
