As you walk alongside the stream, the landscape around you smooths out into a pleasant valley, sheltered on both sides by forbidding mountains. It is as if the mountains are protecting this verdant valley and its stream.

The shadows lengthen as sun begins to set, casting a warm glow over your surroundings. You can see the pale blue moon rising in the sky, and above you, the distant skies begin to darken. As the last wisps of bronze, sun-tinged clouds surrender to the night-blue sky, you come to a small hut standing at a fork in the path. One path seems to meander off towards the mountains; another more or less continues the path that you are on.

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Enter the small hut | Choose the meandering path | Continue down the path