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Your super-sensitive hearing detects the faint sound of stone grating on stone. Then you notice that a line of loopholes are opening at chest height along both walls of this passageway, revealing the sticky sharpened tips of venom-coated spears.

'Get down!' you shout, and throw yourself flat on to the damp stone floor. Moments later, a volley of the deadly spears comes hurtling from out of the walls to smash and splinter in the passageway. Both you and your companion escape injury, your timely warning saving you from certain death.

To continue, turn to 325.

Text copyright © 1991 Joe Dever.
Illustrations copyright © 1991 Brian Williams.