"The Caves"

The Moonless Caves

THE CASTLE: You arrived at the castle. The drawbridge is down and the heavy iron gate is open. Gihk looks around showing his sword and grunting. Ander touches your shoulder and stars at you silently.
"Let's go." He finally says. You follow your new friends into the walls of the castle and there you see a lonely courtyard. There are no soldier and everything seems to be too quiet. You walk along Ander and Gihk but you can hear just the whisper of the wind and your boots on the rocks.
"This way." Says Ander. You follow him and find yourselves against an high stairs that go to the first floor. You go there and see that a struggle has took place there. You walk from the main hall to the adjacent rooms, looking for someone who could explain to you what has happened, but you find nobody. So you decided to climb the main tower.
There is a dusty passage-way and a nice sight to the lake, and a large chamber with cruets and stills. You look around there but you can't find anything interesting. In a smallest room, the wizard's one, you find an old book with a leather cover.
"To the one who can read." You read.
"What is that?" Says Ander.
"Just the book of spell of the magician." Replay Gihk indifferent.
"Look!" You say. "it seems that a dark power has token the master of the castle with all his soldiers and servants. I does mean that the Garklich are conquering these lands. They have raised from the foam of the lake and they have nourished themselves with the rays of the rising sun. They are sons of the twilight and of the fading moonlight. A terrible guide will shows 'em the way and the Garklich will conquer the world for him when he'll give the signal, becoming its slvaes. 'They want the dark and the dark will be the key '. They want an eternal mist to cover the sky, created from the water and the waves of the lake. If they will be able to do that they could live forever on these lands."
"What do you think, Gihk?" Says Ander.
"Got to fight."
"What?" You say. "You can't. They could be thousands!"
"That's not a problem."
"He is right." Says Ander to Gihk. "You can't win all them. You'd be defeated in a jiffy and it would be useless. Go on, boy. What says the book?"
"I can see a strange passage here. It says: ' In the dark it yell and they'll begin. But not too early or not too late or it will be the end '. It sounds obsure and odd!"
"Mhmm . . . I guess that will know what does it mean when we'll need it. Go on. What's next?" "He give a riddle. We have to find the caves of the Garklich where the key of their being is hidden. but if we want to know what we have to do afterwards we have to solve the riddle. It will say where to find the key and the caves."
"Okay, let's try." Gihk grunt again and disappears in the passage-way. You and Ander look the following page of the old book and read an inscription:

Where do to find? Show me the way
Lost in the hidden, top-close you stay
Walls of some nature, out from the space
Shafts all around, take soon your breath.

Lost in the shadows, right to the end
Mist of the lake, rising the sand
Tell me, dear stranger: can It take place?
One will give life, other means dreath.

You and Ander looks together in silence. You are always be a smart and clever boy. Or that's what you have always thought about yourself. You have to find the answer, but . . . Do you dare to defy the fate in such dangerous ways?

What do you do?
- I say: "I'm sure, the correct answer is 'the dungeon'. Believe me Ander, I know what I'm saying."
- I say: "I'm sure, the correct answer is 'the wood'. Believe me Ander, I know what I'm saying."

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