"My eyes look for what excites me. This very much excited me," Karstly said. "For all the effort it took to reach it, I knew that if we made our way here, our good friend atop the mountain would make his mistake. Like everyone else, he overlooked this little feature of the geography."
"As any sane man ought to. It's barely wide enough for a single horse. This shouldn't be a battle-changing discovery," Samuel said.
"Ah, but it is," Karstly replied. "When men of our calibre mount it, and it is as ill-defended as we find it."
From below, Karstly heard the shouts that he wished to hear. "MEN! WE'RE CLIMBING THE SLOPES!" Gordry shouted.
For horses, the ordinary slopes were far too steep. For men, however, they were just barely manageable – just not quickly. It would have been reckless to try and climb them without any men atop the slope to defend their efforts. And now they had just those very men.
