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Without the breeze of the speeding Skyrider to cool you, the heat of the mountains is almost unbearable. You trudge across the loose reddish sand, your faces covered to keep the dust from choking your throats. All that seems to grow in this desolate waste is the wire-hard grass that tears at your boots and leggings.

As you reach the outskirts of Ikaresh, you pass a small round hut where a goat is eating from a manger by the door. A man appears at the darkened doorway and bids you welcome; he touches his forehead in a salute of friendship and invites you both to enter his humble home.

If you have the Kai Discipline of Sixth Sense, turn to 365.

If you wish to accept his invitation, turn to 225.

If you wish to decline his offer and continue towards Ikaresh, turn to 272.

Text copyright © 1985 Joe Dever.
Illustrations copyright © 1985 Gary Chalk.