Driving rain hammered at Roland's armour, as it had done for the last few days and nights. The dark sky roiled and boomed with deafening crashes of unrelenting thunder as angry forks of lightning stabbed down at the earth. Sleep had been a lost cause, even when he did manage to find a rocky outcropping or enough tree cover for him and his horse. He no longer knew how long it had been since the rain began, or whether it wa...