Choose your own Path pt14
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As soon as is humanly decent, you get dressed and quickly bid the sphinx farewell. You'd had a lot of fun on this trip, but right now, your priority to get out alive is overcoming your desires to hang around and have fun. The sphinx nods to you, understanding your desires, and lies down, before you are jogging back towards the elf's room.
She has not moved from her bed, and for a fleeting moment you consider charming her or calling that favour she offered you. She looks up,momentarily interested in the fact you are still alive and that you wear some of the Master's treasure, but then quietly looks back down as you skirt her bed and head for the exit.
The constant zigzags are frustrating, especially now, when you feel so close to escaping this cave for good, when all of a sudden, just at the exit to the cave, you come across someone.
He, for a he it is, is an elf, and looks exceptionally well built and toned, and because he isn't actually wearing anything on his top half you can see his gleaming muscles in the light of the sun not twenty yards past the elf. He carries no weapon, wears no armour, and yet, you can almost sense the power behind this non threatening elf, even leaning against the wall with his head down, giving no indication of having seen you.
"Good afternoon, adventurer. Must you leave so soon?"
You know it's the Master. Stop and wait to hear what he has to say
or
Make an excuse and run for it.