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. To his
amazement, however, the water parted the instant the staff
touched it. Flowing down around the staff, it formed an
archway that it seemed they could walk through, safe and
dry.
"I'll be damned!" Tanin said in awe. "Did you know it
would do that, Little Brother?"
"No," Palin admitted shakily, wondering what other
powers Raistlin had invested into the staff.
"Well, thank Paladine it did," Sturm said, peering
through the hole in the water. "All safe over here," he
reported, stepping through. "In fact," he added as Palin and
Tanin and Dougan - with a wide-eyed gaze of longing at the
staff - followed. "It's a grass lawn!" Sturm said in wonder,
looking around in the gray gloom by the light of the staff.
Behind them, the water changed again, this time to a wall of
bamboo. Ahead of them stretched a long, smooth sward that
rose up a gentle slope, leading to the castle itself.
"Now it's grass, but its liable to change into a lava pit
any moment," Palin pointed out.
"You're right, Little Brother," Tanin grunted. "We better
run for it."
Run they did; Palin hiking up his white robes, the stout
dwarf huffing and puffing along about three steps behind.
Whether they truly made their destination before the sward
had time to change into something more sinister or whether
the sward was always a sward, they never knew
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