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 The arch of red light draws you forward, your energy almost gone, your resolve to continue almost spent. Staggering onward, your concentration is now focused on each breath you take and each faltering step. Such is you fatigue that you do not notice at first that the passage has widened. Almost at once the air becomes clearer and your breathing becomes less laboured. Looking around you can see that the way ahead extends for another three hundred metres before it ends at an exit lit by red flame. In this wider passage the choking dust has been replaced by a hot wind, the noise and smell of a great furnace pushing away all else.
Leaning against the steaming rock of the passage wall you feel some of your strength returning. After clearing your eyes and wiping away much of the grit that has clung to your face you can see the remainder of the passage ahead. The red fire is some distance away but it illuminates the passage with its hot glow. The blackness behind you roils and billows with seething waves of soot and ash. The furnace ahead overpowers your senses with its noise and stench. Surely you have found yourself on a journey to Hallen'draal itself for which there can be no way back. For a moment you halt your advance; it is time to consider your situation.
It is while you are pondering how much you value the completion of your quest that you notice the large metal plate attached to the eastern wall of the passage.
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Do you wish to have a closer look at this plate? If so turn to section 222. If you wish to journey forward turn to section 99.
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This book, and its associated books and other documents in the Chronicles of Arborell series are the intellectual property of the author, Wayne F Densley, and all rights are reserved by him. Windhammer is best viewed at 1024 x 768 resolution. Any questions regarding the Chronicles of Arborell can be answered by emailing the author at densleyw@shoal.net.au
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