Chapter 34: The Emenasari Mountains

Niamh looked at her gasping advisor.

"Where? Where is Lord Tigherneach?" she asked, her voice barely a whisper.

Roedrian Boru gave his head a shake, and looking at Lorcan in disbelief, "They were sent to the Emenasari Mountains."

"Did he say where in the mountains?" Lorcan asked. "It will take us an eternity to find them if we have to search the entire range."

Niamh's heart pounded in her chest, she felt a lump in her throat.

In the distance the mountains were a dull, gray border between the sky and the ground. Clouds and snow covered the very tops, and pale green grass grew around the bottom. Icy-blue flowers were sprinkled throughout the mountains, but nothing grew near the peaks, except what the priests and priestesses nurtured at the temple. There was a slender, fast-flowing river that ran past the temple grounds and flowed throughout the mountains until it reached the waterways of the riverlands. The Temple, although made of black rock, blended in to the side of the mountain, allo