The Unquiet Slumber of Ashes and Ice: part two

Part: 2/5 (read part one)

Wordcount: 1,327

Synopsis: Amy and Lyle go over the pictures from the day’s work. A restless night follows.

“Man, that’s about enough to knock me out,” said Lyle, pulling off his heavy knit cap as we staggered into the lodge at long last. None of us could really claim to be mountaineers. People who probably could had reassured us that nothing between the site and the lodge was particularly rugged. It was more rugged than any of us.

  The lodge was a spra...