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THE PATH BECAME really steep. We had to walk in single file and could no longer talk to each other. The wind picked up, and it was my guess that it wouldn’t be long before we were either in the mist or it would start snowing, probably both.
Deep within the hood of my jacket, while watching Evi’s back in front of me, I had plenty of time to think about what Deyu had said. It fitted disturbingly well with our experience of the Tamerians.
But that still left the question: what was the point? And why had Benton Leck not discovered this in the time he’d been here?
I would have to ask him.
Right now, he was still struggling up the hillside, moving ever slower than we did. I’d have to call a halt when we came to a sheltered spot. The top of the ridge wasn’t far away.
We were just getting
