"We owe you our lives," she said to Varduk. "What were those——"
"Never mind," he cut her off. "They will threaten you no more tonight. Go to your beds, and be more careful in the future."
This was the story that Jake told me as we drove the final miles to the Lake Jozgid Theater.
He admitted that it had all been a desperate and indistinct scramble to him, and that explanation he had offered next morning when Varduk laughed and accused him of dreaming.
"But maybe it wasn't a dream," Jake said as he finished. "Even if it was, I don't want any more dreams like it."
6. The Theater in the Forest