Jae Stormland braces at the open door and drives his shoulder into the gale, pushing ahead onto the broken shelf trail. Elowen stumbles in front of him, one hand skimming the rock for balance as the canyon yawns black below.
Elowen
We keep moving... or the wind takes us.
Another flash of lightning tears through the storm, revealing the upper ledge ahead, narrow as a knife edge. Loose stones skitter away under Jae's boots, and the groan of the canyon wall answers the wind like distant thunder.
Horgar
Hold her arm, Stormland. She is fading fast.
Elowen sways hard against the gusts, nearly dropping to one knee. Jae reaches her in time to catch her before she slides toward the edge, while the storm hammers the inn behind them and the blocked path disappears under spray and darkness.
Elowen
The shelf is still there... if the stone holds a little longer.
Ahead, a black split in the rock opens wider under the lightning, and a strip of cloth still hangs snagged on a thorned outcrop, snapping like a warning pennant.
✓ Quest Accepted
Get Elowen safely onto the upper shelf trail