earthdawn cathay 01 Dark Shadows of Yesterday by unknow

Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: epub
Amazon: B004F9PANY
Publisher: RedBrick LLC
Published: 2010-12-04T07:00:00+00:00

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CHAPTER 10

The sheer cliff fell away to a wide green river below that curved off to the east. Beyond the river, one hundred feet below, was a waving sea of leaves from the tall trees. The cliff was a curtain of stone colored with grays, browns, and greens, along which grew a thick spread of trees that grew out and bent upward. The branches obscured the many caves that dotted the cliff face, inside of which their captors lived.

They were in a cage of wood, reinforced by shamanic magic and secured with a simple wooden lock. The cage was barely large enough to allow the three of them to sit comfortably, and none of them could stand without stooping over. It rocked gently back and forth, suspended by a thick rope tied to a trunk twenty or so feet above them. Daylen felt his heart drop to his stomach every time he looked down, seeing the green thread of the river through the wooden bars beneath him. Their captors kept their homes in the caves along the side of the cliff, but they conducted their lives in the jungle above. They had many hidden passages—under thick brush, within the hollowed trunks of gargantuan trees—that led beneath the earth to the caverns below. This not only kept them safe from predators, but it also allowed them to vanish like mist before a noon sun in the case of an attack.

Occasionally, children would poke their heads out of the caves, pushing their faces through the branches to get a better look at them, and then flee once Bei realized they were there and chased them away with a growl.

It was to the jungle village above where the three of them had been taken. Their weapons and possessions stripped, they were forced to kneel before a podium upon which sat several older elves, who were the tribe's chosen leaders.

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