Roawn Quotes

“Annad could not imagine the valley without the village. But Roawn could. Reading the old stories in the house of books, listening half asleep to Timon under the teaching tree, and most of all, sitting on the grass by the stream while the bukshah grazed around him in the silence of the morning, he had often imagined this place as the first settler must have seen it.”

“They had been walking beside the dry bed of the stream for hours and had let the village for behind. Looking back, Rowan could no longer see even the tall stone walls of the mill, the highest building, because the trees had screened in from view. In front of them, like massive wall, rose the Mountain. In another two hours, the others said, they would reach it. The map showed clearly that they must begin their climb at the place where the water gushed from its underground tunnel to form the stream.”

“Rowan sighed. He had probably been over-optimistic, expecting to find solitude down here so close to the jetty and the rocky little beach beloved of the local friends, but id did seem rather unfair that the only company he did attract that of a boring kid who played football with a beer-can.”

“Yes it is Rugby which is responsible for many of the troubles which beset Rowan in the next few months. He makes a dangerous enemy of Colin Clitford, a fellow team member. ”