Newsgroups: alt.pub.dragons-inn
From: gujn@uniwa.uwa.edu.au (Jeremy Nelson)
Subject: Re: Kadrys explains to Zia why he isn't exactly a sun-worshipper
Message-ID: <1992May31.153038.15571@uniwa.uwa.edu.au>
References: <3242@sol.deakin.OZ.AU>
Date: Sun, 31 May 1992 15:30:38 GMT


>Zia gives Kadrys a concerned look and writes out,
>"In antipathy,     Pitted energy,     The sun and I,     Face each other..."
>She is evidently asking if this is true of Kadrys.

>Kadrys raises his eyebrows, and nods to Zia. "Symbolically speaking, yes. Like
>most symbols, it contains the truth while at the same time exaggerating it. You
>might say that the sun is no friend of mine. Once, for many years, the
>slightest touch of its beams would have destroyed me utterly. Now..." He pauses
>for the merest fraction of a second, his eyes flicking round the room as he
>struggles with his ingrained caution, "Now I am no longer so young. But still I
>feel small pleasure in its glare." At that moment, Lady Azzar unsheathes her

Zia shakes her head sadly, she looks sad for the first time.

Then she speaks, in a very high, quiet voice.  She has a pronounced
(almost English like), archaic accent.
"I have lived so long.", she smiles gently.

"And every day, I have lived for one thing, if nothing else.  I have
lived for the sun rise.", she shakes her head.

"There are always answers.  This time I know the question.", she smiles
again, but only with her lips.

"Give me something of yourself..."

She leans across to Kadrys, holds his face gently between her hands, and
kisses him.  And not gently.  She holds it for a moment or two then
breaks of with a gleam in her eye.

Then she jumps off the chair and nimbly dodges through the crowd toward
the exit.

"Goodbye Kadrys.", she gives a wave.

She looks up into the air and around before waving again.

"Bye Drax."

She darts out into the cool dark of the city.


ADMIN:  Well most of UWA has been infected by an almost fatal case of Exams, and
I am no exception :(  So a break is needed.  Besides Zia needs to go of
and continue on in the best traditons of Drax :)  So I'll see y'all
sometime after The End of Life ^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H Exams.