Newsgroups: alt.pub.dragons-inn From: jpesonen@viikki.Helsinki.FI (JORMA JUHANI PESONEN (EKT)) Subject: [Mista][L] Xrxs: Young man draws the veil... Message-ID: References: <1ff447INNo3@flop.ENGR.ORST.EDU> <1fj9kkINN3ms@flop.ENGR.ORST.EDU> Date: Thu, 3 Dec 1992 09:15:19 GMT In article <1fj9kkINN3ms@flop.ENGR.ORST.EDU> foleye@xanth.CS.ORST.EDU (Stilt Man) writes: >There, she sees, and a light of understanding reaches her ebon eyes. There is >Xrxs, battling desperately against the shadow creature, who seems to be >draining him of life and with him, Kirkil Uaiz. The Shrouded One wraps her >entire body, save her velvet-gloved right hand, in her Shroud, her cloak, and >extends the hand at the shadow creature. A streak of white light, intense >and hot, leaps from her palm and takes shape as a pulse about the shadow, >expanding finally into a sphere of light encapsulating the shadow. The >Shrouded One pulls her hand beneath her cloak, waiting to see the result. As Xrxs sees the shadow enter the young man, who had just emerged from the manhole, he feels relief. Then a light starts to envelope around the sheet of darkness and it seems to drive the sheet even faster into the young man. Xrxs feels a sting of guilt, and tries to grab a hold of the thing. But his hands go through it, as does the young mans hands, too. The sheep disappears into the young man's nose and mouth. The man twitches and buckles around... Xrxs, Created Companion Mirka, the Street Urchin JPESONEN@viikki.helsinki.fi /// /// "Is all that we see or seem, There are realities /// But a Dream within a Dream?" Within realities, but /// Edgar Allan Poe THERE ARE NO ABSOLUTES