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You pause just long enough to drag the dead guard's body into the shadows, then slip quickly into the tower. A semicircular passageway opens on to a hall, where a wide steel staircase descends to a torchlit passage. Cautiously you proceed, poised to react to the slightest sound. You hear nothing: the stair and the passage beyond it appear deserted.

Turn to 130.

Text copyright © 1988 Joe Dever.
Illustrations copyright © 1988 Brian Williams.