CHAPTER 1

"Shut that damn door! Quick!"

"What....was that noise?" says the merchant "It was like the sound of a wailing child!"

"Lunge you godamn cur get back down here this instant! What are you doing up there?" says Graz Hal "Cur I'll have your skin if you're thinking of deserting us!"

"Atila can you stand, man?" you say, but he does not answer

With all his breadth he barely manages to keep the door shut; a deep wound, from one of those flying arrows, is set on his shoulder. How...did it penetrate the hewn stone door?

Two hands! Two clawed hands erupt from the stone and they are grabbing him and crushing him; and you see a line of fire burst from the ground! A circle of flame, a wall!

What is this? Atila is burning alive! And from the flame, two twin lips emerge! And two piercing eyes of flame!

"Slayer!" shouts Lunge from the top of the stairs "Tis no mere vessel for dark commands; a dark magician is here in all his might and presence!"

"Upstairs! Through the wine gallery!" you hear Dongo speak for the first time; some cowardly voice follows, Kondlak?

"I'll hold them off! Move!" says Graz Hal, and as he does, the edge of his blade sheens with a silver blue glow. But you cannot look back, and as you run you hear only the sickening sound of the searing of flesh. A scream! No, two piercing wails! Grim Don holds still for a moment and unsheathes his blade as well!

You hurry upstairs. Lunge is not here, where is Pompo? That bald man and other ones have already escaped, but where are the other two?

It's that damn wailng again!

JUMP THROUGH THE WINDOW AND FIGHT

JUMP THROUGH THE WINDOW AND RUN FOR YOUR LIFE