Chapter 769

• They found another pile of skulls only a minute from the first. It, too, was surrounded by burning bushes. They pushed past it and onward to another pile of skulls, bigger than the first. Two dozen starving souls circled it, performing the same task.
• "Where is the master?" Adron asked a soul.
• They spared only long enough to point in the general direction the group had already been moving, before they lifted what had to be a brute skull back onto the pile.