Chapter 28

The pale ended only about a stad ahead, and yet for the life of me I could not summon up courage enough to try and pass around its end. In fact, I could not conceive how the wall ever could have been built even that far, in the face of that terrific heat. Later I learned that it had been built little by little behind a huge screen of woven fire-worm fur, and only during off-shore breezes at that. Well, there was nothing for me to do but turn around and retrace my steps, back to the Valley of the Howling Rocks and b…