As she made her way through the woods toward the high road, she heard 
massed hoofbeats rolling by and knew that the first contingent of messengers 
had just come over the pass after waiting for the storm to pass. She waited a 
few minutes and then followed them. Turning onto the high road out of the dense 
woods, she reined in her horse and sat for a moment, astonished by her first 
sight of the Castle of King Coyote.