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While you enjoy your impromptu meal, you stare at the shimmering waters of the lake, now some ten kilometres distant, and contemplate with dread what may await you when you get to the east shore. Then, unexpectedly, your Sixth Sense warns you that danger is much closer at hand and instinctively you reach for your weapon. As your hand closes upon it, a fearful roar erupts from the bushes on the other side of the trail. Suddenly the foliage is torn open by two great hairy paws and a black, bear-like hulk comes charging across the trail towards you, its fanged jaw open as if to bite.

If you possess Animal Mastery, and wish to use it, turn to 15.

If you have a Bow and wish to use it, turn to 198.

If you have neither, or choose not to use them, turn to 257.

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