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The track winds through the centre of the valley, following the course of a stream that meanders towards the River Phoen. It flows alongside a white-brick house, turning its waterwheel with a comforting, regular sound. As you ride past the house and over a tiny, hump-backed bridge, a cluster of cottages and an abbey come into view. In the grounds of the abbey a burial is taking place. A circle of monks dressed in hooded brown robes are lowering a coffin into one of several freshly dug graves.

If you have the Magnakai Discipline of Divination, turn to 76.

If you do not possess this skill, turn to 221.

Text copyright © 1987 Joe Dever.
Illustrations copyright © 1987 Gary Chalk.