Walking the Splintered Spine                           -      -     NE 
(-------------------------------------------------)     - <---(M)---> -
                                                        SW     -      -

The trail becomes a bit more difficult here.  The skeleton has shifted
due to seismic activity and the spine has splintered and broken in many
places.  Walking has to be more careful now as any misstep could send a
person plummeting to their death on the jagged bone and rocks below.  The
air is oddly silent.  No birds arguing with each other over scraps of fish. 
No insects buzzing along lazily.  Only the crunching sound of weight on
bones and the occasional creak of the skeleton breaks the silence.  In this
glaring silence it is easy to mistake the sound of wind for whispered words.