Allan and the Holy Flower Chapter 8 - The Magic Mirror

In which the travellers, beleaguered by both perilous circumstance and an unruly escort of freed slaves, find themselves on a misty plateau poised at the boundary of the mysterious Mazitu territory, where cordiality must be delicately negotiated with the arrival of armed warriors. Through the mysterious allure of a polished mirror and the brewing of a “holy drink,” they hold council with wary leaders and a formidable witch-doctor, unveiling both the power and peril of their strange and wondrous “magic shield.”