Chapter 14 Summary

Ransom fights the urge to simply give himself up to Weston and Devine and resolves to make the journey to Meldilorn to see Oyarsa at all costs. He imagines that Oyarsa might be a sorn, or perhaps some kind of god. He feels as though he is walking straight into the hands of the sorn from which he has been running ever since landing on the planet.

Ransom makes his way to the foot of the mountain and begins climbing along a narrow path that leads over it. As he gets higher, he begins to feel the effects of altitude. The air grows thinner and colder. Confused from lack of oxygen, he looks for anything that might be Augray's Tower. He sees a faint light ahead and makes his way toward it. He discovers the light is coming from a fire burning in...