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Cautiously you enter the building and find yourself in a massive hall with tiered balconies looming high above you. You walk past many rows of transparent columns filled with a slow-moving coloured liquid and, in the distance, you see a swirling whirlpool of light.

The light illuminates a grotesque statue, three feet in height and formed of a strange, greenish metal. The statue has the body of a child sat cross-legged on the floor but bears the shrivelled face of an old man. In its open, upturned mouth rests the Threnogem.

If you wish to take the Threnogem from the statue’s mouth, turn to 71.

If you wish to examine the statue more closely, turn to 226.

If you have the Magical Power of Psychomancy and wish to use it, turn to 39.

If you have the Magical Power of Prophecy and wish to use it, turn to 55.