Newsgroups: alt.pub.dragons-inn
From: mba@controls.ccd.harris.com (Belinda Asbell)
Subject: [Ga]  The Sound of Silence
Message-ID: <1992Nov20.191034.15587@ccd.harris.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 19:10:34 GMT



They continue on the road to Erranvale. Everyone is obviously shaken by what
has taken place, Garriot most of all.  The sound of him cursing himself
under his breath drifts to the back of the solemn procession.  Several of
the others look contemplative or confused.

No one speaks for a while.  No sound but the birds overhead and the
hoofbeats of the horses.

Marran'helarr, the small winged cat who seems to have attached herself to
Khisanth, takes off and flies ahead.  The sun sinks lower in the sky.

Marra returns, alighting on Zebron's unoccupied shoulder.  She seems to be
carrying on some conversation with Dusk.  She then returns to Khisanth's
shoulder.  The forest seems to get thicker.

Khisanth's voice is the first to break the silence.  "Marra says that there
is a town about two miles from here.  We are nearly at the edge of the
forest."  The sun is very low in the sky.

An hour later, they reach the edge of the forest at the top of a hill.
Down the hill, a small town sits on the bank of a small river.  It is
almost dusk.

The melancholy crew rides down the hill, and enters the town.  Alaric
arranges lodging for the night, and stabling for the horses.

After a meal halfheartedly eaten, everyone retires in silence to their
rooms.

Khisanth/Alaric

"I could be bounded in a nutshell and yet count myself king of infinite space"

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  Good judgment comes from experience.  Experience comes from bad judgment.