: Elgun looked at her, his eyes like polished obsidian. "You seek a way out," he rasped, "but to see the path, you must first carry a secret."
Elgun did not speak to men, for he carried the Legend said he was the keeper of a "Goygol" (a celestial secret) that kept the mountain from crumbling. The phrase "Sığyıb üstüvə sirlər" was whispered by the elders whenever they saw his silhouette against the moon—they believed the very scars on his back were maps to lost gold and forgotten wars. The Trial of the Mist Sen Tek Canavarsan Sigiyib UstuvЙ™ SirlЙ™r
In the mist-shrouded peaks of Gadabay, there lived a man named Elgun. To the villagers below, he was a ghost; to the mountains, he was the He lived in a stone hut perched on a ridge where the wind screamed like a wounded beast. : Elgun looked at her, his eyes like polished obsidian