### 133

Hurriedly you retrieve the Rope from your Backpack and make one end of it into a lasso. Then you cast this loop around a rock which is embedded in the wall of the gully, and drag yourself out of the dust. The sides of the ravine are steep but the rocks and boulders which pepper its surface make it easy for you to climb. Swiftly you ascend to the top of the gully where you take shelter from the wind behind a rocky knoll. As you settle yourself into a hollow beside a pillar of jagged stone, you are startled by a loud screeching caw that echoes in the dark skies above.

Turn to 295.