### 134

Unnerved by your discovery of the dead hunter, you press on in silence. The temperature drops steadily as you ride deeper into the pines, until frost dusts the branches and frozen puddles appear on the track ahead. Soon the track ends abruptly and you are forced to make a wide detour to the south. After traversing two miles of difficult terrain, you happen upon the highway that bisects this nameless forest. Reluctantly you follow the highway eastwards for one mile until your Kai senses detect that evil magic is at work in this frigid timberland. When you tell Chan that it would be wise to go no further, he is only too willing to heed your advice and you rein your horses to a halt. But as you are turning them about, you are shocked to see that something is now blocking the highway behind you.

Turn to 235.