Chapter 18 Summary

All sense of time has escaped Anodos. He does not know how long he has been walking or how much longer he has to go. He does not have any food, but somehow he has been sustained. A mist gathers behind him obscuring the way he has come. At length he feels the rock walls begin to close in around him until they are so close that he is forced to crawl on hands and knees. The tunnel leads him to an opening, which deposits him on the shore of a wintry sea. The landscape is dismal and hopeless. Anodos refuses to let Death overtake him and in one last burst of energy flings himself off a rock promontory into the sea.

The water refuses to let Anodos sink and buoys him to the surface. He floats along until he bumps into a...