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. Flint crossed the rushing stream
on a high suspension bridge that reminded him of the village
in the vallenwoods, and made camp on the eastern bank in
the shelter of two red maples. The next day he followed the
bank of the White-rage until he reached the Southway
Road.
For a little more than one joyously uneventful week of
nearly perfect blue skies, Flint advanced down the
Southway Road, which formed the eastern fringes of
Qualinesti, avoiding the rare habitations of the elves. On
the morning of the eighth day he left the Southway Road,
since it continued southwest to the ancient fortress of Pax
Tharkas, and Hillhome lay to the southeast.
He blazed his own trail through the hillcountry, the thick
forests and foothills east of that settlement. Here the vast
slopes of dark fir trees surrounded barren chunks of sharp
granite. A land of steep gorges and winding valleys, the hills
did not achieve the height of true mountains, but their cha-
otic nature made the trail as rugged as any snowswept al-
pine ridge.
This was hill dwarf country, Flint's homeland, and the
rough ground was like a smooth path under his feet
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