Journey Into the Unknown1_4
1 The sky was blue, the red sun still gleamed in the west, and in the east, the moon, thin as a thin crescent, glistened. The snow glistened and shimmered with the colors of the rainbow, a bitter frost enveloped the entire planet; here, on the peaks of the White Eternity, it was perhaps the coldest. The two travelers negotiated snowdrifts; a week had passed since they left the caves in the Gray Hare Valley, their home. On the map of the white mountains, they looked like ants, but in reality, they were not so small. The first of them, wrapped in wolf skin, wearing rabbit-skin boots and a hat replaced by a wolf's head, forged the trail. He was 200 cm tall, his face was frozen and red, but beautiful and delicate, his high cheekbones giving it an expression of seriousness and stubbornness. The second, only a head shorter than the first, wrapped himself in a bearskin, also wearing boots and a hat. His face was full of desperation and determination. Although similar to the first, it wasn...