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Your acute hearing detects the faint sound of stone grating on stone. Then you notice that loopholes are opening at chest height along both walls of the 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. Your timely warning saves you and Prarg from certain death, yet, unluckily, one of the speartips ricochets and gouges Prarg's shoulder.

Turn to 186.

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