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‘The peasant told you that everybody around here knows the story about the felloho found the gold,’ fat Estarg said, his eyes squinting shrewdly ‘Before you go running off into the wilderness why don’t you ask some of the others if they’ve ever heard it If they haven’t, then the first peasant was lying through his teeth, and we can all join hands and rip him up the middle’

The penned-up farmers all confirulator Konag gathered up a dozen of his black-uniforh the far across the northern boundary of Veltan’s Domain Their route lay somewhat to the west of the more populated coastline, so they encountered very few real farinary faraps - and to repeat her ht about that, the more Ara ca and his men to actually climb up into the old All that was really necessary would be to make them believe that they’d seen it

It wouldat her since she’d first coan’s sailors and Narasan’s soldiers in the basin above the Falls of Vash, and Ara definitely didn’t want Konag and hisand hisvery hard when they reached the top of the iinary pass that opened out into the basin above the Falls of Vash, but - in their dreae-line at the north of the basin

And there they stopped, astonished and awed by the wonder stretching off to the northern horizon The sea of gold sparkled in the ulators actually wept at the sight

Ara held the dreae before them for perhaps an hour, and then she turned them around and pointed them toward the south

They were all positive that they were totally exhausted by the time they reached the foot of the vast waterfall, so they decided to stop for the day when they reached their previous caed drea and his men were absolutely convinced that what they had dreamed was hard truth Ara was quite pleased by hoell it had turned out

Then she i and his fellow Regulators, so they arose early the followingand set out toward the south before the sun was even over the horizon

Jalkan and Adnari Estarg would have ht level of secrecy on the ulators were all possessed by an overpowering urge to tell everyone they met about the wonder they had seen, so at least half of the church soldiers in the encampment on the southern coast of Veltan’s Do reported it to his superiors

Konag went directly to the crude hut that Jalkan and Estarg had appropriated upon their arrival

‘Well?’ Jalkan de you the truth?’

‘No,’ Konag replied with an absolutely straight face