Beyond the deserts lie the Rocky Mountains.
The desert had lain undisturbed except for the period several thousand seasons ago when the students of Kolinahr came and carved this retreat from the rock.
They will be out of sight of Thalanna then, and the desert will lie all round them with sunlight falling on its golden smiles.
In the south (Makran) lies the desert.
To the south and west of these grasslands lies the central Australian desert.
The desert belonged to the community forest Walderbach and lies east of the monastery Reichenbach.
Finally, when the desert lies behind them we learn the truth.
The mountains soar to 20,000 feet in the east, and endless deserts lie in the west.
It has been said that the largest desert in Europe lies at the bottom of the Baltic Sea.
But the open desert lies ahead, and she does not falter.