Newsgroups: alt.pub.dragons-inn
From: gujn@uniwa.uwa.edu.au (Jeremy Nelson)
Subject: Re: Kadrys welcomes Zia, and hears an unwelcome tale from Nightstalker
Message-ID: <1992May22.170712.9636@uniwa.uwa.edu.au>
References: <3189@sol.deakin.OZ.AU>
Date: Fri, 22 May 1992 17:07:12 GMT

>Zia, peers over everyones shoulder and shrugs- everyone will probably wander
>off to the chambers now. She looks around for a while, hoiks up the sack and
>wanders over to the table with the vampires around it...

>Kadrys smiles in welcome as Zia approaches, shifting aside a little to make
>room for her.

Zia looks pleased, hops up on the chair and squats on it surveying her
company.


> He bends close for a moment and murmurs "Only I fit that
>description, lady. Constantine and Demian here are each unique individuals..."
>He pauses and glances humourously at his companions for a moment "...Though,
>come to think of it, it's probably a natural enough mistake to make..."


Zia grins and nods vigorously, considers for a moment and gestures
around in such a manner as to convey, <...perhaps not... compared to
them you don't look like a Vampire at all...>
She grins disarmingly at the others at the table....

>His voice trails away and he stares intently at some tendrils of mist working
>their way under the door. His interested expression is replaced by wariness as
>the mist condenses into Nightstalker's form. He listens in absolute silence to
>a second gleeful catalogue of slaughter. His face is bleak as winter, his eyes
>are cold as the void by the time Nightstalker departs in bat form. It is a
>long time before he speaks. When he finally does so, his voice is a bitter
>husk of sound, barely above a whisper.
>"It was not a simple matter of sustenance, of survival. She could have drained
>him dry at their first meeting. Instead, she met him night after night, taking
>only the smallest fraction of his strength.  Why?  She _loved_ him.  And he?
>He makes a _boast_ of how he repaid her..." Kadrys sighs and falls silent. 

Zia nods sadly, looking all the while at Kadrys.

She gestures vaguely, looks slightly defeated, thinks for a moment...
then takes Kadrys' right arm (closest to her) turns it gently till the
inside of the wrist is facing up... and gently kisses it.  Then releases
his hand....

She looks at him quizzically...