Continuing by amber light you forge on, now sure this will lead you out on the far side of the mountain. As you draw closer however, the walls of the tunnel change. Gray rock gives way to silken threads and you hear skittering coming from side passages.

Raising your weapons, you proceed cautiously into an open space covered in webs and lit on the far side by the distant light of the cave's exit. You know what this is, it is the lair of the Wandering Queen. She is dead thanks to you, but looking up, you see the reflection of dozens of eyes staring back. You failed to kill all her young that day, and they have been hiding here ever since. You bark to take up a defensive stance, at the same moment the spiders fall on you.

As eight-legged monstrosities twitch and curl up where they fell, you call for the all clear. Wiping ichor from your blades, you find an item left from some poor unfortunate. Searching the webs you discover its owner's skeleton, his chest broken outwards from the inside. You hope you got the last of them, but you will not be going back in to find out. Gathering at the cave's exit, you pull your hoods up once more and head back into the storm.

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