| 294 The open grasslands are a direct path to the foothills of the Devkraager Tor and most probably the best chance of getting to there unnoticed. From your previous travels in these lands you know that very little stands between you and your destination. History has ensured that these wide plains have remained relatively unsettled, both conflict and the ferocity of the weather having conspired to make living here very difficult. Without delay you place Pallenten on her course for the mountains. Pallenten gallops swiftly across the low grasses, only the occasional slight hill or small stream standing in your way. She moves with a velocity that is breathtaking, a speed that consumes the leagues as she pounds forward, leaving large tracts of ground behind as she arrows for the mountains and the object of your quest. In this vast expanse you settle back and enjoy the vista that spreads out before you. Your only concern the approach of weather to the north-west. There is a storm brewing, the rolling of distant thunder a messenger of bad weather ahead. Onward you ride, Pallenten set on her path and the leagues disappearing under her mighty strides. Overhead the sky is a patchwork of white cumulus and deep blue, only the thick black line of advancing cloud to the north, any hint that you have anything other than clear weather ahead of you. You search the horizon but can see nothing that might indicate trouble, it would seem that you are alone in this part of the world. You smile, experience has taught you that it is just when you believe you have nothing to fear that things have a way of becoming very dangerous indeed. Cresting a rise in the land you see, some one hundred metres to your right, a small stone-built farmstead. It stands on the plains as a single isolated building, surrounded on three sides by overgrown hedges that have spread up to its walls. It has the look of being abandoned, but the ground surrounding its front entrance show some signs of recent use.
| Do you wish to have a closer look at this farmstead? If you do, turn to section 272. If you can see no need to waste time here and want to move on, turn to section 303.
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