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The two escorts enter the alleyway and, although you are less than ten feet away from them, they fail to see you hiding in the shadowy doorway. You watch as they open the sack and proceed to pick over and divide its contents. It is filled with the spoils of battle: items of value which they have taken from prisoners or stolen from the dead.

They laugh greedily until they hear the gruff shouts of their sergeant who is standing at the main gates, shouting out their names. Quickly they hide their booty in a hole beneath an empty horse trough, then they leave the alleyway and hurry back to the town.

If you wish to uncover the hiding place and search the sack, turn to 323.

If you choose instead to follow these two Drakkarim, turn to 137.

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