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You are woken in the middle of the night by a tickling sensation just above your left knee. At first you ignore it, but when you feel it moving you pull back the bed sheet and instantly you freeze. Crawling slowly up your thigh is a red-legged spider with a copper-coloured body the same size as a Gold Crown. At once your Kai instincts recognize it to be a zuath—a Vassagonian tree spider. Its venom has been known to kill in seconds.

If you possess Animal Mastery, turn to 22.

If you do not possess this Grand Master Discipline, turn to 173.