>TM 4
>LS 2
>PS ON
>PL60
>SM6
>CP ON
>FO OFF
>------L-----------------------!---------------------------R
		ä326ä      

	You fire your arrow at the leader and it strikes his 
Š	wing and breaks the bone, causing the creature to 
Š	spiral out of control. Yranai yells and cheers but 
Š	his triumphant cries are premature. You watch aghast 
Š	as the itikar collides with the balloon and stabs its 
Š	talons into the canopy. In its desperation to 
Š	survive, it shreds the cloth to ribbons before it 
Š	falls away and plummets to its doom in the 
Š	timberlands below.

	The impact of the bird hitting the canopy knocks you 
Š	off your feet. Yranai falls on top of you and, for a 
Š	few nerve-racking seconds, you lie entangled at the 
Š	bottom of the basket as the balloon rapidly loses 
Š	altitude. When you pull yourself up and peer over the 
Š	rim, you see the trees of the lower mountain slopes 
Š	rising towards you at a dizzying speed. Yranai looks 
Š	up to see shreds of cloth trailing from the punctured 
Š	canopy above and the sight proves too much for him: 
Š	he faints. Hurriedly you haul his frail body over 
Š	your shoulder. Then you place one foot on the rim of 
Š	the basket and get ready to make a desperate leap 
Š	away from this doomed balloon as the tops of the 


Š	mountain pines come into view.


	If you possess Kai-alchemy, turn to  â107â

	If you do not possess this Grand Master discipline, 
Š	turn to  â115â