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From: cam@mullet.gu.uwa.edu.au (Cameron Neylon)
Subject: [W] Willliams story part 5
Message-ID: <1992Aug18.080127.3679@mullet.gu.uwa.edu.au>
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 08:01:27 GMT

William nods as the Jolly Roger, takes a seat at the table in a most
disconcerting manner, but after the drinks, He's talking quite freely.

"Well, we left the pub and walked towards this building, the townsfollk
looking at us quite strangely as they parted to let us through. We walked
through the door into an ante room, a hallway, then up a set of stairs 
to a long room with a table going the whole length of it. The room was
in fact longer than the building, but we didn't notice this at the time.

On the table was a sphere mounted on a brass stand, with shapes on it. 
Later we were told it was a map of the world, naturallly a magical map
showing the state of the war we were being dragged into.

'Well', the old man said,'the four of you have been chosen for an 
important task. You are going to go on a great adventure such as are
told in the epics. But first you willl be trained to the fullest of
your ability. The two magicians will study with me, the fighter with
my man at arms, and you, 'he said pointing to an old friend of mine,
a fairly pudgy girl who I had known for many years, 'you know what
you are already of course, and we won' be telling the others will
we?'

Well neither the girl, the new one not the one I knew, were happy 
with this. I was just ready to work with my master on what he had
been training me for, and she, . . well she obviously didn't want
to be involved. So we left.

I returned to my master, but not after I had talked to her. Her name
was Eloise Le Fevre, and it became clear that she was an elf. 
I really didn't care byu this stage, just talking to her was a great
thrill, but she left, not for long as it turned out, but she did leave.

I returned to my master and studied with him for some time, but it didn't last
long. He died only ssix months later.  NOthing untoward mind you, hejust
went to sleep one afternoon, and didn't wake up, quite peaceful reallly.

But afterwards, I went back to the oter wizard and asked if he still wanted
to train me. I knew I couldn't train myself.

 
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-- 
Cameron Neylon  cam@gu.uwa.edu.au
I can't think of anything witty enough that people 
would really want to see it time after time after . .