" Nugget stopped, and Janner bumped into the dog’s rear. “What is it?” he called to Nia and Leeli as he squeezed past Nugget. “The steps end here,” Tink said, pointing at a fall of white water hissing through a gap as wide as the lane that led from the Igiby cottage. Had it been a stream in the forest, they might’ve jumped across with little trouble. "

― Andrew Peterson , North! or Be Eaten (The Wingfeather Saga, #2)