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‘Coleman, Titus, and Ayascho climbed the steep cliff, and from the ridge top, they looked into a gaping crater at least a thousand feet deep and more than a mile across. The soil inside the crater was cobalt-blue in color, just like the meteorites.’
‘There were no roads in the west because of the Great Magheedo Marsh, a huge, impassable wetland south and west of the mountains, full of weak-ground. Coleman came to understand that term to mean quicksand.’
‘…they had reached the Teg-ar-mos Wall. It was a stone barrier more than thirty feet high and ten feet thick. Coleman could see watchtowers fifty feet high at regular intervals in both directions for as far as he could see. He was told, the wall ran from the east side of the peninsula to the west side.
‘…the party bumped into the Magheedo Mountains, a range of rolling hills with peaks no higher than about two-thousand five-hundred feet. They were rugged and covered in lush vegetation.’
‘‘…the Magheedo Plain, an expanse of cultivated fields, sprouting what looked like wheat, oats, and other cereal grains.’ “These fields feed the citizens of all three great cities. They have always provided food enough for the people as well as beast and slave,” Sestardi Titus, commander of the king’s detachment
‘Although Myron’s map didn’t show it, the next landmark they were to encounter was the Magheedo River. Coleman was told, it was a small river in comparison to most of the others they had encountered and crossed while in the Wilderness.’
“What are these terrors, and what makes them so danger-ous?” Coleman wondered.
“I’ve seen them,” said Pontus. “They have a big fin on their back, taller than a man. They are as long as ten men are tall, maybe more, and they can swallow ten men at once. That’s why no one goes on the ocean.”