Elves of Eagle's Cleft - two beginnings

I tracked down the rest of the Mirhap-gheal story, which as I had remembered was present in a spiral-bound green desk-diary. "Mirhap-gheal", as I had remembered, does indeed translate into the Fighting Fantasy-style title of "Elves of Eagles Cleft". And the narrative does in fact continue beyond the scene previously quoted, which is the entry under the date November 26 -- the next page allows you to bend the bars with your bare hands if your Stamina score is 19 or over (highly unlikely, by what I remember of the Fighting Fantasy gaming system!), or else watch Hirrhin being carried off by the guards due to your failure to understand how the 'magic' sword in your possession is supposed to work ;-p
( two versions of the introduction )

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( Version (i) )

( Version (ii) )