Newsgroups: alt.pub.dragons-inn From: wolf@cheshire.oxy.edu (Clinton Richard Wolf) Subject: Lucas: Replies to Bakr Message-ID: <1992Jun3.192758.1655@cheshire.oxy.edu> References: <1992Jun3.150405.14283@rhrk.uni-kl.de> Date: Wed, 3 Jun 1992 19:27:58 GMT >and Bakr takes them and his milk to the fire, finding his place occupied >by Maleiu. There was a free place next to him, but that's occupied too, >by Father Lucas Murphy. Bakr puts his meal on the table, gathers another >chair and sits down. > > "Hello, mylords. I'm Bakr from Eschar. I overheard you search for your >mother, mylord Murphy?" > Lucas lifts up his head once again and sighs deeply "No, it's probably not my mother I'm looking for, because she probably hates me anyway... I don't blame her, though... I never knew her at all, and that's probably for the best since she would hate me even more if she new me... "No, I'm almost sure I am not searching for my own mother, which narrows down the list to millions and millions minus one instead of millions and millions... how helpful... but, I suppose it is my duty to sort through them all and find which mother I am supposed to defeat the plans of, even though it will take me, at best, hundreds of boring, depressing years... the Gypsies are probably laughing at me even as we speak... how typical..." He slumps, but still looks at Bakr... "I suppose you could be a start... Do you know any mothers?" Lucas waits for Bakr's reply, bored as usual...