You break camp and set out, moving as briskly as you can in your snowshoes. Farad retreats into the border ethereal. Luckily, your backs are pretty much to the wind, as you head west-northwest.
Midmorning comes, and you arrive at a signpost, sticking up out of the snow by a few feet. It reads -
The Devil's Road: East: To The Long Valley Road and Yeti Pass.West: To Dead Man's Pass, Dortleburg and Demon's Neck.
South: To The Witch's Dale.
Leslie smiles at Laurie.
"Demon's Neck...we won't be too far from your home. Maybe we should go and visit."
Laurie nods.
"I'd like that," she says. "It's been too many years. I wonder if my parents are still alive?"
You continue along the Devil's Road. As the day progresses the road curves steadily more northwards and the mountains close in on either side. You are climbing slowly but steadily along the south side of a narrowing valley. By nightfall the road is running northwest, and some miles off to your right and below, you see a large, frozen river running down out of the mountains.
The night passes quietly.