Realizing there was nothing more she could do, she remained there in
uncertain melancholy, her mind buried deep in her thoughts.
Chapter 5
Peering down at the entrance of the larger cave, Sylviana kept her
vigil. Kalus had long since fallen asleep, something which troubled her
deeply. She could not understand how he could be so indifferent about
the fate of her only friend. She herself had remained on the lip of
rock just beyond the smaller niche for what seemed an eternity, and
still had seen no sign of either wolf or spider.
She had passed much of the time by studying the awesome landscape that
opened so broadly before her, her first unobstructed view. And she
could summon just enough geology and topography to be both puzzled and
intrigued by the inexplicable diversity of it.
To the left of them, due south at a distance of roughly five miles, lay
a massive sandstone ridge, descending from a high central erg in two
long arms that reached out west and southwest beyond the edge of sight.
Eroded by wind and water, it reminded her most of photographs she had
seen of Monument Valley in the west, though not so old or well defined.
Then there was the phenomenon of the line of granite cliffs from which
she now surveyed the valley.
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