Message-ID: <92198.131448ASG102@psuvm.psu.edu> Newsgroups: alt.pub.dragons-inn Date: Thu, 16 Jul 92 02:32:19 +0200 From: Thomas Kettenring Subject: [L] Return of a bandit Mat Hozolo was depressed. He had joined Traenu's gang a week ago, and this was his first robbery with them. Old Rink had been sent out with the mage to look out for the warrior they wanted to kill, and when they came back, they all had taken their positions. The scout came, saw, and whistled, Mat attacked him with Lenek Fiep and Berpfatz, and then his horse, Teteer, ran away with him. He lost his sword, and when he jumped off the horse, she ran back. And now he was in this forest without a weapon. The others would laugh at him for weeks... He quietly approached the fighting place and looked at it from behind a group of trees. Teteer was standing there without moving. The warrior's wagon was there, and some strangers searching bodies on the ground. He got closer. Hey! That body was Lenek! And there, Nolty and Berpfatz. He stretched his neck. Yuck! That was Dotch Comlances, and that was Dotch's arm. The bandit changed his position which allowed him a glance at the remains of Bemald Donz and Rhod Slike. Another was hidden from sight by the elf searching him. The elf got up, and Mat recognized Traenu. It looked like he was lucky. The guys who should have been their victims had killed more than half of the gang. He didn't see Old Rink Warfame, Drisil the mage, Andris and Kachin. Perhaps they had managed to flee... Mat ducked, and found a better hiding-place. He would watch those guys, but he would have to be careful. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bakr looked over Brycur's shoulder when he read the note. He knitted the brows (which was an easy job, considering his brow size) and said, "Now it gets complicated..." "Derek the Black...ring any bells Brycur?" Luthor asked his merchant friend, but he was too busy searching the bodies of the other fallen bandits to listen. The mage wondered what to do now with this horse. "Do you think we could use a remote-controlled horse, or can I release her?" "No, I don't think so. We have all of our horses here except for Murell's and that couldn't have wandered very far. Even if that one is injured, we can take one of the bandits' horses. You had better save your energy," Luthor said while walking toward Brycur. "So be it." The bandit's horse looked around in surprise and confusion. It tripped a bit, then calmed down. Bakr ibn Ja'far ibn Musa al Mekneshi, apprentice mage. With additional conversation from -The Dreamer-