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She treads quietly and swiftly along the path. Rough looking men lie ahead on the road. She draws her cloak close to her, casting a veil of invisibility of herself. She moves carefully past them and finds a hidden path covered by thick brush.
Feeling safe that she will not be detected here, she removes the cloak, revealing her blue silken robe, designed with pictures of a wolf pack. She casts a spell of protection as she looks at the rock wall in front of her.
A spell of flight is cast and she makes her way to the top of the steep inclination. Her elven heritage assists her in locating a hidden entrance at the top.
She enters a cave bathed in black, but again, because she is an elf, she can see where there is no light. A sealed door stands before her with a small slot directly in the middle, small enough to hold a small pendant. She removes a pendant from a pouch from within her robe, a pendant which she had obtained two days earlier after vanquishing a spirit, and places it into the slot. The door opens, revealing what lay within. After retrieving the pendant from the door slot, she enters the now open door.
She walks into the antechamber facing two halls. She choose the one on the left and moves in that direction. As she walks down the hall, she stops to look at a bust of a warrior with the head of a tiger. Her hand brushes against its nose and a click is heard. To her right, a hidden passage opens up. The light from the hall is devoured from the darkness within.
Then, without warning, a pair of red eyes appears with a growl trailing. She gasps and stands frozen as two more pairs of eyes illuminate in the gloom. A scream escapes her lips as a large paw descends upon her.
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