Chapter 18 The Free Commots FROM SMALL AVREN THEY WENDED eastward at an easy pace, halting as it pleased them, sleeping on the turf or sheltering at one of the many farmsteads among the rich green vales.

And finally that arduous climb, twist by twist of our straining foot-pads, through the Pass of Long Umbras to reach this green vale where, four traeki generations ago, geysers steamed and rainbows danced, celebrating the dark ovoid's emergence?

One of the roads dropped into a green vale, rose again, and slanted across the downs toward a steeple marking a dear and familiar village.

I was a knight, a warrior, a feudal lord, a mythos come to life, so that small furry creatures such as the one I how held in my arms would continue to people the green vales and wine-dark mountains of this so-fair world of Camelot-Fregis.

The country was much rougher and more barren than in the green vale of the Great River in Wilderland on the other side of the range, and their going would be slow; but they hoped in this way to escape the notice of unfriendly eyes.

The desert has given way to red grasses bordering undulating green vales covered in purple heather and yellow calafate blossoms.

In back is the sloping hollow where his parents grew vegetables; now it's just a beautiful green vale, with a black bull and some cows.

But marred and dishonoured as they were, it often chanced that thus a man would see again the face of someone that he had known, who had walked proudly once in arms, or tilled the fields, or ridden in upon a holiday from the green vales in the hills.

Collins strode on beside him, going into the green vale.

Sorano, about five miles away across landscapes of green vales and hills, was another Orsini stronghold.