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This tree-lined avenue leads to a large public garden called the Rainbow Park, so named because of the vast number of rare and colourful flowers that grow there. The park itself has been turned into an army encampment for those Anarians who have answered the President’s desperate plea for defenders. Their banners, lit by the glow of a hundred campfires, hang above the tents that cover the lush lawns. A couple of soldiers, armed with two-handed broadswords, which they rest across their shoulders, stand guard at the park gates.

If you wish to ask them if they know where Chiban the Magician lives, turn to 17.

If you wish to continue along Rainbow Lane without stopping, turn to 288.