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Your silent surrender seems to anger the leader. It is as if you were in some way insulting his honour by refusing to answer him or take up a weapon in defence of your life. He bellows his contempt and, in a fit of rage, releases from his silver rod a charge of raw power that lances through your chest. Death is instantaneous.

Your life and your quest end here on the Zhamin plateau of the Daziarn.

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