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Upon hearing you utter the correct solution to her riddle, Shamath recoils in horror. 5 You have beaten her challenge and the humiliation she feels cuts her as sharply as any sword.
She begins to whimper. Then, quite suddenly, a geyser of flame shoots from the floor and engulfs her wormlike body. You watch with disbelief as the tendrilled flesh blackens and flakes away in a matter of seconds, to leave nothing but a coiled heap of glowing cinders.
Footnotes
[5] This is the correct answer to Shamath’s riddle in Section 189.