It may be necessary for us to join forces.

If so they can mount our whole party.

One of the saddles has a moveable horn, and can be easily adapted for Mina, if required.
It is a wild adventure we are on.

Here, as we are rushing along through the darkness, with the cold from the river seeming to rise up and strike us, with all the mysterious voices of the night around us, it all comes home.

We seem to be drifting into unknown places and unknown ways.