The Ivory Child Chapter 9 - The Meeting in the Desert

In which the travellers journey through hostile lands to reach the empire of the Mazitu, overcoming fears and superstitions to find unexpected allies and prepare for a perilous expedition to the distant and formidable country of the Kendah. At the journey's brink, mysterious visitors appear in the night, offering knowledge and companionship fraught with both promise and sinister forewarnings, enticing the protagonists onward into the unknown.