Make your escape
From Create Your Own Story
You make the most of the opportunity, and the Serpent's temporary daze, to hurry away across the brow of the hill towards the river. You crest the rise, heading roughly north towards the river-bank, where you should be able to pick up the path once more and make faster progress.
As you head down the hillside towards the river bank, you spy movement in the distance. Something is happening at the water's edge. There are three figures, moving around by the water, perhaps fishing. But there is something quite strange about them.
You stop where you are and strain your eyes to look. Figures – women? But they move too fast, flitting across the river-bank like sheet snapping in a breeze. You wait a little longer until you are quite sure. The creatures are floating, and moving through the air. But they seem harmless enough: your guess is that they're fishing.
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