### 17

You make a slow descent to the clearing, trusting to your camouflage skills to keep you hidden as you move from one boulder to the next. You are less than ten yards from the carcass when you hear the faint scrape of leather on stone. You turn to look and a man’s voice growls, ‘Don’t move!’

Standing between two boulders away to your left is a grey-bearded man, clad in furs and clutching a loaded crossbow. The weapon is pointing at your heart.

If you possess the Discipline of Telegnosis and wish to use it, turn to 201.

If you do not possess this skill or choose not to use it, turn to 280.