One obvious danger lay in the road itself, and the fad that I had no light. After dark, various serpents seek out the road for its warmth, its stones retaining the sun s heat longer than the surrounding countryside. One such serpent was the huge, many-banded Gorean python, the hith. One to be feared even more perhaps was the tiny ost, a venomous, brilliantly orange reptile little more than a foot in length, whose bite spelled an excruciating death within seconds.

Book 2 page 26

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