At that moment Aahz and Tanda came in. They glanced first at Glenda, then saw me and came over and sat down in the other two chairs, their backs to the main part of the room.
“Started without us, I see,” Tanda said.
“Couldn’t resist,” I said loud enough for the bartender guy to hear. Then I whispered, “This stuff is awful.”
“What is she doing?” Aahz asked, his voice a barely audible whisper.
I pretended to eat a tiny bit of grass, covering my mouth as I answered him.
“Getting information. And for heaven’s sake, don’t order the food. You have any luck?”
“None,” Tanda said.
A few seconds later the bartender pointed down the street in the opposite direction from where we had entered the town. Glenda smiled and came back over.
“Horses are sold down at a stable just outside the edge of town,” she said. “I told him we’d clean the kitchen for our food and drink.”
“I wonder what we’ll have to do for horses?” Aahz asked, shaking his head.
Glenda shrugged and kept pretending to eat.
“Besides,”, I said. “We don’t know where we’re going yet.”
“True,” she said.
“That’s our biggest problem,” Aahz said.
Suddenly it dawned on me that we should know where we were going. What kind of magik map would simply lead to a dimension without giving directions to the location of the treasure in the dimension? After all, a world was a very large place to be looking for one cow.
I had taken the magik out of the map as far as getting to this crazy dimension. But it hadn’t occurred to us to check the map once we were here.