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Rhea nodded and turned to Earendil. "If you would care to do the honours," she said seriously.

Earendil nodded and dropped his pack. "Lin," he murmured, "are you coming with me? I don't know how long I'll be ..." He reached down and pulled his stones from his boot again. He was reluctant to use the magic again after two days of already having used it so much, but there really wasn't much choice. Rhea could use the magic that other people could, but she couldn't mimic the magic of items.

Earendil sighed and nodded. "I'll be fine, I'll just be very tired by the time we get back." He smiled faintly. "If I sleep for a week full, don't be surprised. Anyways. Let's go. Finding them sooner is better than later."

And leaving his pack in the sand, he started off towards the jungle once more, stones in hand.

"Be careful!" Rhea called after them.

Unfortunately, Earendil realized far too late that he ought to have taken his bag with him. He didn't think that Kelirahc and Leyenda would be so far from the beach, but after a full day of traveling, they still hadn't found the two, and the elfstones were pointing still further into the jungle.

"I ought to have given them to Rhea to use," he muttered, "though for that matter I could have simply asked if she had her own that would be any good."

"It does," Earendil sighed. "I just hope they're not off flying somewhere ... though the stones do seem to be pointing in the same direction all the time, though where that is I don't know. I haven't been to this area at all yet."

They were due north of the beach, and heading still further north.

He looked down at Lin. "Any ideas?"

Earendil closed his eyes and sighed again. "Well, all we can do is keep going," he murmured, "and see if we catch up with them somewhere. I swear I'm going to sleep for a week when we get back."

But for the moment, all he could do was check their direction again. Holding the elfstones high, he used their magic to seek out the two they were searching for. As always, the stones were pointing due north.

"Eventually," Earendil muttered, "we're going to hit the other side of the island."

No sooner were the words out of Lin's mouth than the trees thinned out and opened up into an enormous clearing ... of sorts. Earendil stopped dead in his tracks and stared upwards at the mountain in front of them. Except that it wasn't a mountain ... it was the volcano that he had been told about ...

"Kelleshahn," he breathed, recalling the name that had been given it. "Why would they be here?"

Earendil used the stones one last time, hoping that he and Lin were in the wrong place, that the others were simply on the other side of it ... but the light simply pointed directly at the volcano.

"That's ... where they are," he said, his voice faltering as he lowered the stones once more. He took a deep breath. "Only one thing to do then ..."

He cupped his hands around his mouth and shouted at the top of his lungs: "LEYENDA! KELIRAHC! WHERE ARE YOU?"

Earendil looked down at Lin, his eyes red-rimmed from exhaustion. "If not," he quipped, "I'm going to fall asleep right here and right now and you get to take care of me until I wake up again."

He looked around, searching for the two with his eyes. He was about to call again when Leyenda's head popped into view about a quarter of the way up the volcano.

"Hey!" she called out to them. "Give us a moment and we'll be right there!"

And with that, she vanished once more.