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When she awoke it was broad day and the sun just arising, and lo!
before her, some half mile off, an isle rugged and rocky, and going
up steep from the shore; and then, held as it were by the fangs of
the rocks and pikes of the higher land, was a castle, white, high,
and hugely builded, though, because of the rock-land belike, it
spread not much abroad. Like to the lovely house of yesterday, it
seemed new-builded; and, little as Birdalone knew of such matters,
her heart told her that this new house was fashioned for battle.
She was downcast when she saw the isle so rugged and forbidding, but
when the boat came aland in a stony bight, whence the ground went up
somewhat steeply toward the heights, she went ashore straightway, and
toiled up toward the white battlement. Presently she found herself
in a strait and rugged path betwixt two walls of rock, so that she
lost sight of the castle a while, till she came out on to a level
place which looked down from aloft on to the blue water, but all over
against her close at hand were the great towers and walls.


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