Lion Head Mesa leviculus

they were speaking now. germanicus felt as if something between them had changed.

he moved toward the shadow under guise of quieting their voices.

crowfeather had spoken to pharaoh. the eagle felt again that he should not have left the shadow alone here. no courts were without their intrigue, and that egyptian throve upon it.

"we do not know their number. we do not know where they might reside. the land here is flat. a sentry can see for miles. we are all of us safer at the mesa than trying to discover where the saints keep their nest."

and yet he did not wish to be here. he wished to be traveling toward the broken stone and what might lay in the caverns beneath. and he meant to do these things with crowfeather.