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The creature gives a strange snickering cry as slowly it edges nearer and nearer. It is a huge, pear-shaped beast with a hunched back and a white lizard-like head. Awkwardly it shuffles upright, on two large hairy paws. At first glance it looks as if two totally separate creatures have been joined together at the waist: the lower half is covered with a coarse, spiky fur, and the upper body is pale and hairless, heavily veined, with long sinewy forearms. It raises its snout to savour the smell of your frightened horse and opens its fanged jaws.

If you have a bow and wish to use it, turn to 17.

If you do not have a bow, or do not wish to use it, turn to 333.

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