| 50 The sounds of violent combat are too enticing to ignore. Your blood races as you carefully pull the tapestry aside by a finger's width and peer into the room beyond. What greets you is a vision of your worst nightmare. In what seems to be a makeshift sleeping quarters for Jotun officers all furniture has been pushed aside and a large area laid bare at the rooms centre. More than Fifty Jotun Troll warriors are crowded around the walls and are shouting and jeering as two Jotun Chieftains engage in a deadly combat at the floor's centre. The sight of these creatures in combat is frightening. Every blow of their huge warhammers is met by steel, rock or bare flesh. Every successful strike is greeted with shouts of bloodlust from the crowd. Without question you are witnessing a fight to the death. As the battle continues you recognise the breast insignia worn by one of the Troll officers. The uniform is the same as a number of Jotun you saw searching the corridors after your escape from the Royal Library. No doubt this officer is defending his honour. They did not find you and the Jotun seem very unforgiving of their failures.
| Do you wish to stay and see the end of the battle? If you do turn to section 218. If you think it more prudent to depart now turn to section 30.
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