`` shush , my nieces , '' said the elder quietly , `` you do look the part in those clothes , '' he tried to sound cheerful but the children could hear the tension in his words , `` there is no time to lose , look , high up there , '' he looked towards the peaks which towered above , dwarfing the city , `` see the one shrouded in mist , '' he pointed towards a peak which had a great claw-like summit which disappeared into the clouds , `` you must head towards the top of the tryden , near its shoulder , see , where the other peak cuts into it , is a roadway .