### 172

You release the straining bowstring and send your Arrow whistling towards the beast’s open jaw. Desperately it twists its loathsome head away from the onrushing missile, but it cannot escape your unerring aim. The Arrow enters the beast’s left eye-slit and sends the creature somersaulting head-over-tail, out of control. You dive aside to avoid being crushed beneath its plummeting body, but you are grazed by its body-spikes when it hits and bounces off the rocks: lose 2 ENDURANCE points.

To continue, turn to 18.