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The gleaming pike heads are barely inches from your chest when you unsheathe your weapon and smash them aside. Your blow shatters their shafts and the guards reel back, wide-eyed and slack-jawed with shock. Seizing your advantage, you spur your horse once more and gallop towards the welcoming shadows of the street ahead. As the outraged cries of the gatehouse guard fade away, you find yourself at a fork in the road. Shadows are lengthening as night draws its cloak around the border town, and you are anxious to find safe lodging for yourself and your horse.

If you have the Magnakai Discipline of Divination, turn to 41.

If you wish to take the left fork, turn to 151.

If you wish to take the right fork, turn to 289.

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