Mud is no Deterrent

The Never Ending Quest - Episode 50009

"I've grown rather accustomed to mud in recent days," Astra said. "And I've got the lower part of my hose rather muddy already. I can put up with a little more. I imagine that it will get too dark to continue once the sun sets, and that we'll have to stop for the night, but going a few extra hours without food won't hurt me. And I've had a drink recently from that well that we passed. So let's avoid the mill and cross the river by the ford. I want to minimise the risk of our being seen. Boomer might have passed out my description earlier on, just in case I should try to escape. If he has, then your ruse of me pretending to be your sweetheart won't work. My hair and my height would give me away at once."

"I d-don't think Boomer's very likely to have done that," Hesht replied.

"Maybe not, but I don't want to take any unnecessary risks. Oh, just one more thing. I suppose that the river will still be fordable after all the rain that fell yesterday?"

"I think so."

So they headed for the ford. They met no-one on the way and did not think that anyone had seen them. They arrived there a little before dusk.

  1. Hesht was right. At the ford, the water was only a little over knee deep.
  2. Hesht had been over-optimistic. The river was up and flowing fast. However they thought that it might still just about be fordable.
  3. The river was up and flowing fast. There was clearly no hope of crossing. They could wait till the morning, hoping that the river would have gone down overnight, or head for the bridge (the gathering dusk might help them escape notice).

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