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Paido is leading the way across a tangled mat of barbed vines when a wave disturbs the muddy ooze below. Suddenly the great head of a silver swamp python bursts through the rotting creepers and raises its tree-thick coils high in the air. Awesome jaws set with double-tiered fangs tower above you, glistening in the fading light. A drop of venom falls from the fangs and sets the quagmire boiling.

If you have the Magnakai Discipline of Animal Control and have reached the rank of Primate, turn to 45.

If you do not have this skill, or have yet to reach this level of Kai training, turn to 155.

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