The Shifting Sands

But it seemed that even finding Caemlyn might be much more difficult than expected when, on leaving the mines, they found themselves not in the foothills of the Shreken mountain range but in the midst of a desert. Fred looked around him open-mouthed, and Irena seemed equally startled.

"Surely this can't be just an illusion?" Fred said. "It's too big for that. But if it's real, how can it be possible? Surely even the Tetrilonians don't have magic that could do this?"

"The Tetrilonians?" queried Irena, looking puzzled.

Fred had not intended to tell Irena of his suspicions, but now he had slipped up he decided that there was no longer any point in being other than frank. "Sir Adrian could not have set up something like this on his own. I thought that Tetrilonia might be behind it, in an attempt to make Allaria look foolish."

Irena replied:

1. "I suppose it's possible. Winc and I only dealt with Sir Adrian, though. We wouldn't have knowingly aided an enemy of Allaria."
2. "Paranoid poppycock! Or does it just make you feel better to believe that only a plot on that scale could have fooled you?"
3. "I... Look, over there, coming across the desert!"

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