Newsgroups: alt.pub.dragons-inn Subject: [R] end of line Message-ID: <92350.11181734EP2A2@CMUVM.CSV.CMICH.EDU> From: JILL <34EP2A2@CMUVM.CSV.CMICH.EDU> Date: Tuesday, 15 Dec 1992 11:18:17 EST Jenever stood up, and shook her head. Some time to start having nightmares! She peered about herself, and was startled to find the ship docked in Generica. Her first thoughts were of Killian. The last she had seen of him, he had been crazed, killing anything in sight. Where was he now? As she stumbled around, curious sailors stared and whispered. The once proud barbarian was now sore and battered. She approached one of the crew, and asked for Killian. He suddenly found some terribly interesting bug crawling across the deck and could no longer meet her intense gaze. "The beast is gone, miss." Jenever couldn't quite comprehend the enormity of what he said. Gone where? How long ago? and other such questions were overshadowed. Instead she wandered back to their room, thinking he might have gone to lie down. The room was bereft of Killian's belongings, and there was a gemstone lying atop a note on the bed. She picked up the tiger's eye and felt warmth and a sadness flowing into her palm. The note she slowly read, sounding out the words, and then read again. <...I hate having to leave you behind, but I could not handle ever bringing you