### 309

You hear the spear come whistling towards your back and you throw yourself through the doorway, but your reactions are not swift enough to avoid being struck by the gaoler’s weapon. It pierces your shoulder and knocks you to the ground at the foot of a set of spiral stairs: lose 8 ENDURANCE points.

Biting back the agony of your wound, you wrench the spear from your shoulder and hurl it away.

Turn to 59.