The Back Roads

The Back Roads is the seventy-first chapter of Tales of Sheol'gotha:  Shadow of the Abaddon.

Synopsis
Much to his disagreement, Palus joins Valon and the others in leaving through the rear gate of Halwen with their trailrunner and A'qyrai. The group finds it hard to navigate the narrow paths leading to the temple, and it is made harder by the tremours that rock them from side to side. Valon falls trying to catch a soldier, and is unable to pull him up, instead watching him fall to his death.

As they cross the bridge leading to the temple they are forced to stop by a great roar. A wormlike creature descends from the sky, crawling upon the temple and disappearing. No one knows precisely what it is but the trailrunner says that there have been others. Moments later another creature - this one birdlike - crawls out and flies off. The trailrunner departs but suggests that Valon may have answers regarding the happenings, though the prince only points out that someone is antagonizing Aranicus.

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