Date: Tue, 7 Jul 1992 20:18:44 EDT
From: The Dreamer <ASG102@psuvm.psu.edu>
Message-ID: <92189.201844ASG102@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: alt.pub.dragons-inn
Subject: [L] Sharella stopps for the night


     Sharella had been travelling with the stupid humans for two and a half
weeks now and she was getting tired of their company.  It seemed that all
humans did was whine about the weather and their journey.  They had just come
through the portal from the Forgotten Realms to a place near the city of
Generica, their destination.  She had been travelling all this time disguised
as another member of the guard complete with pheonix tabard and two week old
facial hair.  This was not a pleasant disguise.  She much preferred her
natural form to that of a human male.
     Tonight, like the past 17 nights was spent talking and complaining
in the traditional human way.  The fire that they had built had ruined
her otherwise sharp night vision.  Sharella was not a happy woman.
     "I don't like this land," said one of the guards while pulling his
cloak tighter around his body.
     "Me neither.  I swear that the Mad Queen just wants to kill us," said
another.
     "Will you two shut up and try to get some sleep?  This journey would
be over sooner if you didn't sleep-in so much and then whine about being
tired all day," said Sharella disgusted with them.
     "You shut up Shar or I'll club you over the head.  I don't know who
you think you are pushing us around and telling us what to do.  I've never
seen you before this trip and I think that you are as crazy as the Mad Queen,"
said the first as he settled down for sleep.
     Sharella was furious, but her exterior didn't show it.  She had been too
well trained to let emotions make decisions for her, but the one that came
to her was both emotional and logical.
     The guards couldn't be allowed to enter Generica.  There, they would be
worthless to her and most likely, they would leak some vital information to
Luthor's spies.  The Queen had told her about Luthor and his tricks and she
was not about to let him prepare for her attack.
     That night, while Sharella was on watch, she quietly killed each and
every guard that the Queen had sent with her.  No sound had escaped their
lips as they died.
     'Practice makes perfect,' she thought as she finished the last of them
off with her dagger.  'Travelling will be a lot quicker now.'
     She collected her things and put out the fire.  After her night vision
returned, she began walking toward Generica in her preferred form.  She looked
like a poor defenseless young woman, but any would-be thief who thought she
was defenseless had just made his last mistake.

     Love and Peace and Silent Murder,
              -The Dreamer-