10:12

It was probably time to turn around and trudge back down. It was late, the fading season quickly sucked the day’s heat from the evening air and there was the matter of the boy.

The beaver had failed to keep his promise up until this point. Despite his best efforts he hadn’t managed to keep up and success had proved more elusive than he had imagined oh so many years ago. But now he had a solid goal and it wasn’t likely to get up and walk away. But then he hadn’t really believed that this Barney would have been able to get up and walk away so many times either.

Yes, time to go. Time to close off the chapter on this hellishly long book.