instead of it handling me.”
She smiled at him. “Let’s go.”
They walked, arm in arm, along the valley.
He said, “There’s some woods we’ll have to go through beyond the pass.”
“Yes, I know, Sherry. I came through them on the way.”
“You were lucky to get through alive. There’s a nasty breed of creatures living in them called—”
“The Creedos? Lee had told me all about them. I knew what to do. I came up through the stream, all the way. That’s the way we’ll have to go back.”
“Damn you, woman, I don’t seem able to tell you anything you don’t already know. Oh, well, we live and learn.”
“Isn’t that what we’re here for?” she asked.
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