[Kratos sees that look and doesn't answer it. It's -- no less safe a place than where they are now; and likely safer, if they don't go deeper. ... Depending. Gnome is known to be -- contrary, which is perhaps an odd description of a spirit of the earth. Nevertheless.

[It's a miserable journey in, but most of them make it; and with the thunder of rain, while Yuan is overseeing the sodden trudge of the final battalion, Kratos nears, and keeps his head down, and trusts to Yuan's hearing.]

We shouldn't go too deep.

[... Would it be more or less of a danger, for people to know this is sacred ground? Some might take it as opportune to destroy Tethe'allan morale. Of course, if they do, they're liable to wind up fronting a pickaxe ...]

This is Gnome's territory.

[In an excruciatingly literal sense.]