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Feverishly you tear open your Backpack and retrieve the vial. As soon as you swallow a handful of the blue pills you feel the pain in your lungs subside and a new wave of strength revitalizes your aching limbs. Oxygen is being drawn from the water around you, absorbed by your body through the pores of your skin. With determined strokes, you rise through the black water and break the surface. The distant shore gleams faintly in the dim half-light and you swim towards it as quickly as your frozen limbs will allow. Aching and numb to the bone, you heave yourself out of the lake and collapse on the flat, spongy rocks that line the shore. (Erase one dose of Sabito from your Action Chart.)

If you have the Magnakai Discipline of Divination, turn to 298.

If you do not possess this skill, turn to 41.