No drearbeasts or hoargouns, but there must be a hundred of them at least. We need to find a building we can defend. Temple to Kedyn? Nay pointed toward the center of the city. If fighting there does get us help, the gods might at least be amused. As good a choice as any. Cooper, keep Alder and Darby here with you. Sign is moon, countersign is sun. Get us a count on them and then join us at the templeand dont wait to come until theyre right on your heels. Id rather error in your count than not getting it at all. We took the outriders spare horses and rode with them into the city and up the broad steps of Kedyns temple. Riding into the building, which was not quite as large as the temple in Valsina, we got our first indication of how complete the dragons destruction of the city had been. The building itself showed the ravages of their fire, but inside the furnishings had also been affected. Tables and chairs were half-melted, but now made of stone. The statues of Kedyn, Fesyin, and Gesric had flowed down over their pedestals as if they were sand-castles overwashed by waves on a lakeshore.
