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Before you leave, you take up one of the crystal swords and examine it. It is a fine blade, but one that was not crafted for a human hand. You replace it carefully in the rack before leaving this chamber and climbing the stairs to the ice-cavern. Here you wait in the shadows for a chance to escape from this subterranean complex by the only other exit—the open archway in the east wall.

Turn to 7.