‘No. I sent him west with 13 other men. Two men died on the way. Eight
men died here. Niels’ father and two men made it back. They died when
they arrived or shortly after. It was
exhaustion
. We didn’t have the
resources to save them. Before Niels’ father died, he told me of this land. In
addition, he gave me this.’
Eskol threw the cloth with the images on the table. It was some sort of
writing. Thoric had never seen anything like it. Thoric looked at the Chief.
Yes, maybe Chief Eskol did have evidence. Now. But what about then?
‘How did you know?’ Thoric asks. ‘Why did you send those men west?
You said you thought there was nothing but sea.’
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