Then Face-of-god turned about and strode out of the ring of men, with
Bow-may and Wood-wise beside him, and they went on their journey over
the necks towards Burgstead. But the Sun-beam turned slowly from
that place toward the Vale, and two of the stoutest carles went along
with her to guard her from harm, and she went down into the Vale
pondering all these things in her heart.
Then the other carles dragged off the corpses of the Dusky Men till
they had brought them to the sheer rocks above the Shivering Flood,
and there they tossed them over into the boiling caldron of the
force, and so departed taking with them the silver arm-rings of the
slain to add to the tale.
But when they came back into the Vale the Sun-beam duly ordered that
watch and ward to keep the ingate thereto, and note all that should
befall till Folk-might came home.
CHAPTER XXII. FACE-OF-GOD COMETH HOME TO BURGSTEAD
But Face-of-god with Bow-may and Wood-wise fared over the waste,
going at first alongside the cliffs of the Shivering Flood, and then
afterwards turning somewhat to the west. They soon had to climb a
very high and steep bent going up to a mountain-neck; and the way
over the neck was rough indeed when they were on it, and they toiled
out of it into a barren valley, and out of the valley again on to a
rough neck; and such-like their journey the day long, for they were
going athwart all those great dykes that went from the ice-mountains
toward the lower dales like the outspread fingers of a hand or the
roots of a great tree.
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