### 172

You cry out in pain and stagger to your knees when a solid lead ball strikes the fleshy underside of your left forearm and lodges against the bone: lose 4 ENDURANCE points.

Using your Kai healing skills, quickly you staunch the flow of blood from your wounded arm and then you half-stagger, half-crawl the few remaining yards to the welcoming darkness of the alleyway. You curse your ill fortune at having stopped this shot, for Bor pistols are notoriously inaccurate, especially when fired from the saddle. You can draw some comfort, however, from the fact that the other twelve pistol balls that were discharged at your back all missed you by a wide mark.

Turn to 77.