Chapter 706

• It had no mountains. A long, long valley, hundreds of kilometers long, with gentle hills along both edges of the Hell donut. At least the valley didn't seem to sink deep, so it wouldn't take any effort at all to walk down into it. And hey, no mountains! No more scaling deadly cliffs. No more climbing rocks, rocks, and more rocks. The valley looked, for the most part, flat.
• Flat, and dotted with lots of tiny white things poking up from the fog, or at least at a distance they looked like tiny white things. The closer ones had just enough shape to look like something familiar.
• "Tombstones," he said.