"Jorah slipped and fell into the gorge. I can't see him anywhere. I can't get down to him." Filan was flushed and panting, having run the entire distance back to the Hall after his friend disappeared, hands scrabbling and useless, down the steep embankment to the rocks he knew were below.
Donno the Blacksmith was in conference with Hammon, so the Council's leader asked Donno to fetch other strong men and as long a rope as possible. Even as he began the trek back to the gorge following the distraught Filan, Hamm began composing what he'd say to Prince Edman, Jorah's father. At least they could bring up the boy's body to identify. Other, lesser folk who had fallen, or jumped, into the gorge had only been left, buried only by rockfall.
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