Newsgroups: alt.pub.dragons-inn
From: aaron@space.ualberta.ca (Aaron Humphrey)
Subject: [KQ] Maleiu[inn]: Table Talk
Message-ID: <1992Aug3.224237.15123@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca>
Date: Mon, 3 Aug 1992 22:42:37 GMT

Maleiu did not have long to wait before Colin came downstairs.  They exchanged
a look that acknowledged each other as early risers, and Colin looked hungrily
at Maleiu's breakfast before ordering his own.

Kron came down a little while later.  Littlefair gave him a message from
Tvarne.  Maleiu remembered the healer and his charity, and resolved to go talk
to him if he had a spare moment that day.

Then he spied the wayward pair from the previous day's battle with the Wasters,
as Azzar and Captain return to the Inn, with another unfamiliar figure in tow.
Azzar greeted Colin cheerfully, Captain talked briefly to Littlefair and also
asked got the message from Tvarne.  And the unfamiliar figure approached the
table, offering to join their band if they were facing the Wasters.

Maleiu mentally checked them off on his mental list.  Who was absent?  Marcel,
and Thk.  They had been up late, though, as a couple of questions to Serene had
ascertained, doing something with a bizarre person named 'Raelf.  Fenris and
HighFlyer had left on their own business.

And Nirvan.  What had happened to Nirvan?  He'd gone dashing off over the
rooftops in pursuit of that elastic Waster after the battle yesterday, and
there had been no further sign of him.  If he had gotten into trouble, then it
was Maleiu's fault for involving him.  He hoped that the youth had merely found
something else to occupy him.  That was something else he would have to attend
to if he had time that day.

Kron was starting to outline the plans of the warehouse they were to invade,
despite Thk and Marcel's absence, and Maleiu listened intently...

--
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