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[ 45] Scorn: The Arrival (Part III) Tue Dec 15 21:00:54 1998 To: all -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Kender child skipped along the road through the forest to Balifore. What fun she'd had today! Her first trip to the city of Arkane! She'd wandered the streets, visited the stores, and found so many bright and interesting things she'd been forced to drop a few of them in the street. Bars, Knights, Red robed wizards, Sailors, Ogres, Elves, and even those cute horned Minotaurs! Eventually, she'd been thrown out of the city by some grumpy guard. "Oh well", she thought, suppressing a giggle. "I'll sneak back in tomorrow!" Then she gave up and giggled out loud anyway. What was this? Someone up ahead! "Oh hello there mister black robe. I don't think I met anyone like you today ...." She awoke only once more. Lying on her back, through the red have of pain, she made out a black robed figure standing over her, and the sounds of something soft and wet. In some distant part of her mind she understood that the sounds were her own... He howled. Brought here by puerile, yet effective magicks, his journey had not been a pleasant one. And now, he hungered. A small corpse lay beside him. Cold, long dead, and distasteful. The pungent smell of fear, mixed with that of fresh, warm meat wafted across the room, alerting his attention to a black-robed figure watching him anxiously. No one heard the short, hoarse scream. Hunger sated, he made his way from the tower. He was loose, and the world, in its ignorance, slept untroubled through the night. |