The Ice People 16 - The Mandrake. Margit Sandemo

of something.”

      Ingrid looked longingly at the saddlebag. “Does that mean we can’t experiment a little on the journey? Now that we have access to all the ingredients?”

      “We don’t actually have that,” Ulvhedin murmured, so quietly that no one heard him.

      “The experiments will have to wait,” Dan said in a serious tone. “If our collaboration goes well, I see no reason why you shouldn’t take a closer look at the treasure at some point.”

      Ulvhedin and Ingrid both seemed very satisfied with his answer.

      Since all three of them were wide awake they continued for a while before setting up camp for the night. Like three shadows in a bewitched landscape, they quietly rode northwards in the deepest darkness of the night.

      No one knew how heavily fear weighed upon Dan as he rode along between the two strange, cat-eyed creatures, both descended from a people who lived on the border between reality and superstition.