- What are you waiting for? You were going to untie me - Kobold's voice roused you from a flow of strange, it even could be called perverted thoughts, which captured you, look like, pretty much time ago.
- Yeah, right - you continued to mess around with knots and soon Nux was loosening up his numbed limbs and fitting his trousers on.
- You've stretched all trouser-legs - the kobold growled, tucking trouser-legs that were half times longer then they were before.
You managed to go but you've thougth about Kastar again and decided to bury him nevertheless. Finding some snag around you dug a hole in dirt near ruins, gathered remains and meat from backpack into it. After swamping it with dirt and rocks you engraved name on the wall, hoping that partial ritual would be enough to put his ghost to rest.
- I fought you were really going to eat him, you've even suggested me some meat.
- Why did you think that? - You acted like it all was a part of a plan - What did you eat in a journey? You were lack of any food when I captured you.
- Fishing, eafing what ever i found - Nux siad and added after a little while - I didn't want it accrue you, but if I'm going with you..
The kobold went along the slope, you hastened after him. He stopped near a boulder in a fifty steps from ruins and took a package with sunflower seeds, slab of cheese and a couple of jerked fishes from under it.
- This shouldn't be wasted - Nux finished his thought.
You put hte food into the backpack.
- Now, let's go - you commanded and moved north.
- Wrong way, your Akrulaban - that way. Move south to the bridge and than to the west.
- There is no more bridge. It collapsed and washed down the river.
- NO WAY!
- Seen by my own eyes. Not even a brick left.
- I see - Nux said - let's go, but we won't enter the village!