With a shadow channel I brought the elf, Elsine and my Master to the top. It is true that we would lose the advantage of the narrow passage, but we would gain the advantage of being able to escape through the other slope... even if the orc army tried to surround the entire mountain, the enemy line would be thin enough to be able to break it...
How had my teacher not thought of that? Then I saw him. An ugly cut had destroyed my Master's elegant suit; a barely healed wound crossed his body from his shoulder to his hip... But the problem was not that; it was as if he were a spider or a black octopus. Spread across his chest...
