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After a week of trekking across difficult terrain, the firm surface of the hill track feels as smooth as a mirror beneath your aching feet. By noon you have put ten miles behind you, and have reached a bridge which crosses a sickly yellow stream flowing down from the surrounding hills. You must now eat a Meal or lose 3 ENDURANCE points.

You are about to continue your journey across the bridge when you hear a rumble of hoofbeats and see a group of horsemen, shrouded in dust, riding along the road towards you.

If you have the Magnakai Discipline of Huntmastery and have reached the rank of Principalin or more, turn to 12.

If you do not possess this skill, or have yet to reach this level of Magnakai training, you can either wait for these riders to reach you; turn to 122.

Or hide beneath the bridge; turn to 322.

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