### 26

You speak your answer several times but nothing happens.4 You are convinced that your answer is correct and, in frustration, you tap the box on the table repeatedly in the hope of releasing the lid. On the third tap a razor-sharp blade springs from the side and cuts into the palm of your hand: lose 2 ENDURANCE points.

Cursing the device, you fling it away into a corner and attend to your injured hand. A sudden shuffling noise, somewhere in another part of the library, causes you to freeze: someone else has entered. You look over your shoulder at the door and decide that now would be a very wise time to leave.

Turn to 335.

#### Footnotes

[4] This section corresponds to an incorrect answer to the riddle in Section 48.