You emerge from a cave. Gradually, the mist clears, and the view is spectacular.
You are in the mountains. In the distance, you can see the famous, if not especially beautiful, Mount Yyhle.
It's also very cold. You're dressed for an English spring, not a hike in the mountains. You try looking for shelter in the cave you just came out of, but the cave has disappeared.
So you descend, looking for shelter as you go.
After a while, you come to a saddle-point: you can either descend to the west (in the general direction of the setting sun and Mount Yyhle), or east (in the general direction of the approaching night, and away from Mount Yyhle). Whichever you choose, you'd better be quick. It's cold now, in late afternoon. You really don't want to be outside once the sun sets. So which is it to be? West? or East?
If you'd come a month or two later, I'd have written up a nice temple which would have taken you in. But that's in the future. In the present, you eventually collapse and die of hypothermia.
But never mind. The scenery was spectacular.
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Fortunately, although it's getting colder and colder, the air remains clear. If it hadn't been, you wouldn't have noticed the lights of a tavern some way off the path you're following.
You don't have much choice. Either you leave the path and enter the tavern, or you continue to follow the path until you eventually collapse and die of hypothermia.
But never mind. The scenery was spectacular.
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