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A few miles beyond the village, the road leaves the valley and crosses an open expanse of lush grassland. The hours roll by and you watch the passing landscape with increasing wonder as you try to comprehend how it can thrive beneath a sunless sky. Slowly the plain descends towards a wide river, sluggish with sediment and flanked by tall, grey-green trees. A bridge spans the dark water and the road continues beyond towards a line of hills. The bridge is built of stout timber, but as you draw closer to it you sense that something is seriously amiss.

If you have the Magnakai Discipline of Huntmastery and have reached the rank of Principalin or higher, turn to 48.

If you do not have this skill, or if you have yet to reach this level of Magnakai training, turn to 321.