From: hapa@ucsco.ucsc.edu (Doug Easterly)
Newsgroups: alt.pub.dragons-inn
Subject: NEW CHARACTER: The Man in Red (not black!) pt 4
Message-ID: <35754@darkstar.ucsc.edu>
Date: 21 May 92 05:45:09 GMT


4..
        The man in red ran close behind Cutter. The young  street
tough with his tattered clothes and heavy boots leaped and danced
quickly through the crowd, leaping over puddles,  ducking  signs,
and  negotiating  crowds with ease. It was second nature for him.
The streets were his.
        The man in red moved with more trepidation, intermittent-
ly checking the sky above him. Waiting for the Hound.
        "There!" Cutter pointed to a sign a block away,  "if  you
can't  find  a  dozen mages and sell-swords there, you won't find
'em anywhere. They call it the Dragon's Inn. If you ask me,  it's
a  bunch  of black-cloaked pansies...." A shadow passed overhead.
The Hound.
        "Run, Cutter," the man in red broke through the  panicked
crowd,  drawing his long dagger and heading for the Inn. He tried
not to looksect, part ape, a  formless  form  and  a  meaningless
presence.  Instead,  he  spoke  the words of the one suit he felt
would work. He cut his hand, pooled the blood in his hand  as  he
ran to the door. A blood suit for power.
        The man in red felt the warm wind of the Hound's wings on
his  back, held his hand upward, and released the suit, sending a
fountain of light from the blood and the wound.
        The Hound fell to the ground, while the man in  red  col-
lapsed on the porch of the Dragon Inn.
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