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Blinding pain rips through your chest and thigh as arrows pierce your skin. You scream with shock, but the pain quickly gives way to a terrifying numbness. As your horse carries you on towards the Tekaro gate, your last sight is of the tilting cauldrons full of boiling oil and molten lead.

Your life and your quest end here.

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