Bramble Trail

Anselm shook his head and replied, "Not yet, my friend. As I have told you, there are some who are not above making a deal with the dragon. Understood?"

"Do you think Legolam is going to betray us?"

Anselm replied, "Do not worry about him. Just keep moving."

Hildegarde stooped down and crawled into a small gap in the underbrush. As the two men approached the gap, Anselm said, "You go first."

Fred expected to be scratched by thorns, but as he advanced, he found that a secret trail had been blazed, and he could go forward without distractions. He could not see far, and was barely able to keep up with the yellow dress of Hildegard ahead. After twenty minutes of wending his way through, Fred noticed that the underbrush started to thin out, and he was able to stand up. He was now in a grove of aspen and birch trees.

Fred could now see what might be a place of refuge. It seemed a little smaller than he had thought. He thought, "Surely this isn't it?"

1. It was a one-room cottage.
2. It was the entry leading underground.
3. It was a treehouse.

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