It's dark and I still haven't found that stupid woman's cave. And now I've got no chance of finding it until the morning. If I try, I'll just wander around in circles, and get lost.
So I bury myself in the undergrowth and try to go to sleep.
Except the night sounds, the howls of the wolves, and the sound of scurrying animals keep me awake for ages.
It feels like I've only been asleep moments when I wake up to the sunlight shining on my face.
I stand up, twigs and earth cascading off me, and stretch my aching muscles.
And then I start to look for that cave again.
I walk through the trees, along the river, having a drink or two, and up a bit of a hill, but I still can't find it.
I try to think back to the day that I'd insisted to Brun that I should know where the cave was too. I remember us all following Ayla.
I remember it was behind some bushes. In a high secluded meadow.
I scratch my head, and walk along the hill stop a bit, and then up another one.
And then I see the hazelnut bushes, and remember that it was these that hid the cave.
I am in the right place.
Quickly I start to look at the bushes growing closest to the cliff. Push the branches aside, looking for the cave.
And then I find it.
And I go in.