'The glens are covered in cold mist...'

'The glens are covered in cold mist, and the summits in snow. We cannot cross the mountains here, and going southwest seems to be entering the swamp further and further, and we don´t want to go in this way so perilous with little hope of finding an exit. But I think I can find some way through the mountains near the northern reaches. We could get to the North Range there, do you remember? These are the mountains in which we were before the floor opened and we fell in the cave. It looked like we crossed the whole world underground, but we were just crossing the Central Range. This swamp seems to be just on the other side of the mountains. I think I can take us home'.
'Lost on the far side of the world, eh?' said Fren 'Good thing we have Teobolt to find the way, for I was thinking, just as you said, that we were miles and miles away from our countries. We are just outside the map then.'
'Nothing more to do, we go north' said Haccu, picking up his things and his sword. The Travellers went on, towards the smaller brown peaks. They avoided the muddy marshes in the lower parts of the valley, and made their trail as best as they could in the slopes of the great Central Range. Not as high as they wished, for it was cold up there, and there was snow in the summits. Their guide had to lead them by the marshes from time to time and they did not knew what was worse: the mosquitoes of the swamp or the cold of the barren slopes.
Faring their way north, they had a great view of the west: a long and watery desolation, without any city or human activity nearby. This was the wild side of the world, on the other side of the Great Mountain Range.
'But the Flower-Kingdoms were up here north' said Karyn 'Yet I don't see them anywhere. To which direction they lie?'
'They lie west' said Teobolt 'Yet you cannot see them, not with human eyes at least. I think they lie too far away to the west and we could not reach them before our provisions are over. And you remember how the fair-folk kept to their regions: I doubt they would have outposts in the wilderness as the ones we can find by going back east, to our lands and countries. Our strength would not last, or so I think. Who knows for certain what kind of lands lie in between us? No one has ever been here. Last night I even saw a faint glow in the clouds, to the west. It was red and menacing. I suppose it could have been a volcano.'
'The land of the Fire must be that way then!' cried Foxy. He seemed to be taken by the desire to come back and ask for help among the people he knew, but then he remembered: 'No one there crosses the Rivers of Fire, that mark the boundary to their land. If they can never go out, the same is for us, we could never go in. It would be a dead end. Let us go north then, and avoid the wilderness.'
'It will be wild' said Teobolt 'But finding a way through the North Mountains, well... I would feel better in known wilderness'.
And the days passed in a slow march. The sun never rose too much, and on the slopes it was dusk very early. Gamma kept her silence and a pair of eyes over the swamp. Did it move her? Was she saying her farewells to a beautiful and inospite place? Or she had enough of it by the founding of a small town?