| 282 The pile of large boulders does not appear to be the best shelter to weather a storm such as the one approaching, but they are all that you can reach in time. With large droplets of painfully cold rain slapping your face you turn Pallenten to the left and ride hard for the stones. When you are closer you make a surprising discovery. At some time in the past a number of the smaller boulders have been moved and placed in a roughly horse-shoe mound. From a distance the boulder pile looks like a random jumble of stones, up close it has obviously been formed as a shelter of last resort by, what would have to have been, a very strong traveller. As you dismount from Pallenten you can see that a table-sized piece of stone has been laid across a few of these large stones to provide a simple roof. The arrangement of the stones forms a small protected alcove within the pile. Although it is not much it will be enough to give you cover from the worst of the storm. After getting as much of Pallenten under the shelter as you can, you crawl in under her belly and await the deluge that is to come. You do not have to wait long.
| Turn to section 326.
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