Friday, April 10, 2009

Thomas Moran Zion Valley, South Utah

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'Nonono. She just wants you to help us. It's a sort of quest.'
Nijel's eyes gleamed.
'You mean a geas?' he said.
'Pardon?'
'It's in the book. To be a proper hero it says you've got to labour under a geas.'
Rincewind's of the logs are the kind of logs that have teeth, and most of the logs opened one lazy eye at the distant sounds of splashing from upstream, and suddenly most of the logs had legs. A dozen scaly bodies slipped into the turbid waters, which rolled over them again. The dark waters were unruffled, except for a few inconsequen­tial V -shaped ripples.forehead wrinkled. 'Is it a sort of bird?''I think it's more a sort of obligation, or something,' said Nijel, but without much certainty.'Sounds more like a kind of bird to me,' said Rincewind, 'I'm sure I read it in a bestiary once. Large. Couldn't fly. Big pink legs, it had.' His face went blank as his ears digested what they had just heard his lips say.Five seconds later they were out of the room, leaving behind four prone guards and the harem ladies themselves, who settled down for a bit of story-telling. The desert rimwards of Al Khali is bisected by the river Tsort, famed in myth and lies, which insinuates its way through the brown landscapes like a long damp descriptive passage punctuated with sandbanks. And every sandbank is covered with sunbaked logs, and most
The Luggage paddled gently down the stream. The

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