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back, moving slowly and trying to sniff out the place where I'd turned
aside and slipped away.

"One suggests that we move along," the she-wolf said.

"The flesh-eating horses will think that we have killed and eaten the
man-thing they were hunting. This will make them angry with us. They
may decide to stop hunting the man-thing and start hunting wolves."

We stayed just back of the edge of the trees so that we could watch the
baffled Hrulgin near the edge of the mountain stream in case they
decided to start hunting wolves instead of men. After about a half
hour, we were far enough out in front of them that the chances that
they could catch up with us were very slim.

The change in the Hrulgin had me completely baffled. The peace of UL
had always been absolute before. What had driven the Hrulgin mad?

As it turned out, the Hrulgin weren't the only monsters that had lost
their wits.

My automatic use of the word "monster" there isn't an indication of
prejudice. It's just a translation of an Ulgo word. The Ulgos even
refer to the Dryads as monsters. Ce'Nedra was somewhat offended by
that term, as I recall.

Anyway, I decided not to revert to my own form once we had evaded the
Hrulgin. Something very strange was going on here in Ulgoland. My
companion and I reached that peculiarly shaped mountain upon which
Prolgu stands, and we started up.

About halfway to the top, we encountered a pack of Algroths, and they
were just as crazy as the Hrulgin had been. Algroths are not among my
favorite creatures anyway. I'm not sure what the Gods were thinking of
when they created them. A blend of ape, goat, and reptile seems a bit
exotic to me. The Algroths were also hunting for people to kill and
eat.

Whether I liked him or not, I definitely needed to have words with the
Gorim.

The only problem was the fact that Prolgu was totally deserted. There
were some signs of a hasty departure, but the abandoning of the city
had happened some time back, so my companion and I couldn't pick up any
hint of a scent that might have told us which way the Ulgos had gone.
We came across some mossy human bones, however, and I didn't care for
the implications of that. Was it possible that the Ulgos had all been
killed?

Had UL changed his mind and abandoned them?