From: mgcaa@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu
Newsgroups: alt.pub.dragons-inn
Subject: Re: A near thing, and a surprise
Message-ID: <1992May17.193421.8374@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu>
Date: 17 May 92 19:34:21 GMT
References: <1992May17.153034.1887@iconix.oz.au>

>Rowan took up a tray and began collecting empty mugs from the tables.
>When she was near the stranger's table, she said in a low voice, "You
>dealt with that boor most admirably, sir."

[Sorry to be out of character, but it's Rowan here, and I'm pretty sure
I would not be collecting mugs from the tables.  You say "she" so I
assume you mean the female Rowan, not the innkeeper.]

>Rowan stared at it, frozen with astonishment.

>It was a glass eyeball. Half a glass eyeball, to be precise.
>One half of a glass eyeball that had been broken in two.
>A half-glass eyeball that matched the half-glass eyeball Rowan
>wore on a chain around her neck.

>It couldn't be. It couldn't be. "You", she murmured. "You! No!"
>And she reeled backwards in a faint.

[And I can pretty well guarantee you that she doesn NOT wear a glass
eyeball around her neck!  Eeeeww!  :) ]

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Rowan