### 217

Your mastery of Nexus enables you to protect yourself and your clothing from the terrific temperatures at the rim of the fissure. Carefully you tread a narrow path along the crumbling edge of this rent, and pass through the fire-blackened breach in the fortress wall. When you come to the end of the fissure the dust clears, but your heart sinks when you see another wall looming above you. This stone barrier has only recently been constructed to shield the stronghold’s inner buildings from the fiery heat of the fissure.

If you wish to attempt to scale this inner wall, turn to 37.

If you decide to turn back and search for another way into the fortress, turn to 83.