165: The Shyish Cavern
So we had got through the cavern of the blue wind, but we were fatigued from the snake venom. Willow got out her box of leeches, though, and after applying them to our wounds, we were feeling better, but she ended up with only one leech left. To continue we had to crawl through the gap at the base of the giant skull. And we could hear the roaring of a river ahead of us. And we emerged into another large cavern, but this time it was suffuse with the purple wind, Shyish. And Shyish is everyone’s least favourite wind, the wind of death. Flowing through the middle of the cavern was a river, but it looked like the river was made of blood. On our bank was the skeletal remains of a huge creature with six legs and great leathery wings. Some of us thought the creature might be a dragon, but as none of us had ever seen one, we didn’t know for sure. Willow suggested we could use the bones to get across the river of blood. Karl said, ‘if they don’t come alive!’ He was looking a little shaken. I...