[log in to unmask]"><SNIP> The author is trying to get the characters from one place to the next, so he/she stuck in some trivial palaver to give the sense of travel. It could have been skipped.
[log in to unmask]">Matt and Vicky both observed that the passage was mostly throwaway, just to get the troops from the lake to the border. I agree. On the other hand, is there ever a place for "throwaway"? But that's another discussion.What did you see, Kent?