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The tribe spends the next day preparing for the journey. You help pack gear: fur skins for extra warmth during the cold months ahead; flint for starting fires; a few bags of extra food—nuts, dried fruit, and edible roots; spices and oils for making medicines; spears for bringing down game; and crude stone knives. Tents for shelter and litters for carrying meat will be made up along the way when more animal skins are available. Next morning, after a breakfast of river crabs and onion roots, the little land of Neanderthals begins the long trek. By noon you reach a place where the swiftly running river is shallow enough to ford. Leading the way, the chief steps cautiously from rock to rock. The rest of the tribe follows single file. You are last in line. Winding carefully across the rocks, you concentrate on your balance. If you fall, the strong current would sweep you downstream so fast you’d never be able to get back. As you approach the trickiest section of the crossing you notice that Vor has dropped back in line and is now just ahead of you. He could easily jab you and knock you into the river. Why else would he want to get close to you? Maybe you should turn around and try to join the people who stayed at the camp. // If you decide to keep moving, turn to page 21. // // If you decide to turn back, turn to page 40. //