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The room is dark and empty. You can see no other way out of the throne room and turn to leave.
‘Wait!’ says Hugi, suddenly. ‘I thought … yes, I’m sure … ’
‘What’s up?’ asks Urik. ‘Thief go mad too?’
Hugi traces a line with his finger along a panel in the wall behind the throne. Suddenly, the panel swivels to reveal a passage leading down. ‘I thought as much,’ he grins. ‘The gap looked too wide; it reminded me of the Great Tomb of Naugorin, far to the east in the Shuri Mountains.’
Before Hugi launches into a long dissertation on his past criminal conquests, you step forward. ‘Into the passage,’ you order and, dutifully, they all file in.
