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As you hurry away you happen upon a trail that gradually descends to the bank of a rushing river. Massive boulders, smoothed by the water over the centuries, rise from the foaming torrent like giant stepping stones. Across the river you see another forest, dark and forbidding. The sun is strong in a cloudless sky and the air is warm and dry, yet a grey mist hangs heavy and cold around the trees of that forest.

All along the bank on this side of the river grow clumps of bushy herbs with bright scarlet flowers.

If you have the Magnakai Discipline of Curing, turn to 276.

If you do not possess this skill, turn to 325.

Text copyright © 1987 Joe Dever.
Illustrations copyright © 1987 Brian Williams.