CHAPTER 4BANNER OF THE MANTICHORE
With dawn the two bade farewell to their host, and departed to seek the plains of Sarkovy. Carthalla was not sorry to leave these cold white peaks where shadows roved and ravened, but Kellory cast many a backwards glance at the stout-walled hut, wistfully dwelling upon its loneliness and its peace. Perchance, when all his toils were done, and if the Lords of Life spared him, he, too, could find a measure of peace in some secluded hermitage, such as that in which the wise Temgis would spend his declining years…
He frowned, shrugging off these comforting thoughts of a peaceful old age. There would be no peace for him till he had seized the Book of Shadows, unlocked the riddle of its pages, and used its mighty power to banish the bestial Thungoda from this
