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Your second task is to retrieve your packs and your weapons. They have been stashed in the corner of the cavern, well away from your cage but also well away from the guards. If you are sneaky or quick enough, you could probably retrieve them without being spotted. If you do get spotted, however, things will get very loud very quickly.

Stealth is important, but speed is better. Keeping low, you dash off, muffling your steps as best you can, ducking and weaving through stalagmites and deep pools of shadow. You are a blur as you dash ahead through the dark, one eye always kept on the guards at their game.

You make it to your gear. Swift and silent, you scoop up your weapons and both packs, one in each hand, before beginning the silent dash back to Zhu. But that's where it goes wrong. About halfway back, the pack in one hand scrapes noisily against the cavern wall, its metal frame squealing against the rock.

The three guards turn instantly, and their eyes widen in shock.

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