44We woke in bed in each others' arms in the middle of the night. It turned out that the one hotel in the town had our rooms in it, and they were adjoining. So we both could take our hot showers and relax after our adventures. She brought her bandages and tonics to my room to treat all those scratches I had, as well as hers. But soon we were both asleep, exhausted from what we'd been through that day.
My dreams had been of that statue and its curious effects. How it possibly could have happened, how it got there, how it was carved. I dreamed of huge fires in that valley and people bringing wood so the artists could work through the night to carefully chip and polish the stone into the likeness needed. There was a master artisan who directed the work, and the chief who commanded the forema
