After some hesitation, you cup your hands and drink deep from the pool. The water feels invigorating, affording you newfound strength to continue your journey. As you proceed to explore, however, you begin to feel sharp pains in your side. Brushing this aside, you continue exploring, until the pain becomes so unbearable you feel compelled to stop. Instinctively clutching your hands to your face, you notice they have begun to take on something of a reptilian appearance. Panicked, you rush back to the lake.

Staring into the pool, you hardly recognize the visage gazing back at you. Large bulging eyes, purpleish scaly skin, odd ridges covering your neck..all this confronts you. Stifling a scream, you notice a large group of reptilian creatures, not unlike yourself, emerging from the pool. One extends its hand to you, and you feel compelled to accept. You descend into the pool with them, and swim down to the depths, feeling the ridges on your neck begin to flutter and adjust to the rushing water. The light grows dimmer and dimmer, and you eventually find yourself engulfed in frigid darkness.

In the distance, however, lights begin to emerge, and eventually a large luminescent citadel appears. Various other reptilian creatures circle it, and, following the beckoning of your travel companions, you enter its awning entrance.

THE END

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