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Desperately you use your mastery of healing to save his life, applying your power to the open wounds that disfigure his face and throat. The bleeding stops and his heartbeat grows stronger, but you sense that it is only a temporary reprieve. His back is broken and, here, in this hostile fortress, there is no hope for his survival and recovery with so serious an injury. Briefly he regains consciousness and forces himself to speak. 'Beware the maze, Northlander . . . green . . . is death.'

It is all he says before slipping away into endless sleep. You close his sightless eyes and lay his sword upon his chest, as is the custom in the land of Slovia when a valiant warrior falls in battle.

If you now decide to leave the body and continue, turn to 323.

If you wish to search the body before you go, turn to 227.

Text copyright © 1986 Joe Dever.
Illustrations copyright © 1986 Gary Chalk.