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Using your Magnakai skills you command your tired horse to descend the hill and cross the bridge. Hopefully its tracks will lead your pursuers in the wrong direction and enable you to get away. As the horse wanders off, you beckon Prarg to follow you into the dense forest. Your instincts and Pathsmanship skills set you on a north-westerly tack, the direction you hope will lead eventually to Magnaarn and the hidden Temple of Antah.

You have covered two miles when suddenly you hear a sound which stops you both dead in your tracks. It is a terrible, bestial growl.

'There!' gasps Prarg, and you spin round to see a terrifying creature come slinking from out of the undergrowth.

Turn to 20.

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