Leave the cave and walk on
From Create Your Own Story
Sounds risky. Whatever it is, you don't need to find out. You press on past the caves, not wanting to be distracted from your path. Glancing in as you pass, you see nothing – you do hear a gentle rumbling from inside, though. Snoring.
As you walk away from the cave, you tread on a twig. It snaps. The sound is small, but seems to echo between the high stone walls on either hand. And then it is met by a louder noise – the sound of something moving inside the cave. Something is coming.
You turn and race away from the mouth of the cave. Something erupts from behind you, roaring and hollering, and you're glad to leave it behind. You hurry out of the shadow of the pass.
You crest the rise some time later, and continue down the slope on the other side, looking back out through another gigantic gate, and into a barren mountainside. The path trips and slides down a steep scree slope, and then emerges onto a sudden plain, as if the forest had been scooped away by a gigantic hand. A river trickles thinly between short grasses and by its banks stands a tiny village.
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