Newsgroups: alt.pub.dragons-inn From: jcarl@jabba.ess.harris.com (Darvos) Subject: Re: [Hunt] Darvos heads home Message-ID: References: Date: Sun, 17 Jan 1993 19:54:20 GMT In jcarl@jabba.ess.harris.com (Joe Carl Jr.) writes: >Darvos bent over to pick up the girl. He cradled her in his arms and he >headed back towards his home. Darvos was getting fatigued form carrying the girl for so long. Who would have though a frail young girl no older than 13 could weigh so much. Of course Darvos was no young warrior as in the old days. Once he had been a great warrior, until his family had been scattered to the winds by a usurper. He knew his brother Padorin and sister Gidyana still survived, but where they lived or how, he did not know. Darvos had turned to sorcery to find revenge for his family. Now the studying to become a great mage had taken so long the thirst for revenge no longer had meaning. Now he was a mage purely for the thirst for knowledge. He was much frailer than when he was in his youth, but he still was strong for a man of 47. He was almost out of the low city and some gas lamps were still lit. At least here not all of them had been broken out. He heard a scrap of a loose stone across the street behind him. He turn his head to see who was following him. It was only a boy child of about 11 following behind him, slightly in the shadows next to a building. The slight glare of the gas lamp obscure the boys features, but he was sure there was only one. "Probably just some street urchin looking for an easy mark. Direct confrontation will scare him off" Darvos thought. He turned with the girl still cradled in his arms to confront the boy. The child left the shadows of the building and headed towards Darvos. As the boy crossed in front of the gas lamp, thats when Darvos noticed he cast no shadow. A chill ran up his spine as Darvos then notice the blood splashes across the childs face and smeared across his front. Horror flashed through his heart as his limbs weakened and he dropped the girl. The girl thumped hard and she groaned loudly when she hit the ground at Darvos's feet. That brought him around, seeing the girl at his feet the need to act for another prompted the adrenaline to rise. Darvos quickly snapped his fingers and muttered the proper verbal phrase and he faded from view. The boy stopped less than 10 yards away and paused. He hunched over almost like a wolf and sniffed they air carefully. Unfortunately the fresh blood on his skin was all it could smell strongly. He eyed the girl on the ground with a look of lust that was strange on an child so young. Darvos stood still and prepared for the proper moment to react. He had already wasted his imprisoning spell on the other vampire. Who would have known that he would meet two vampires in one night. -- Joe Carl Jr. "It ain't what a man don't know that makes him a jcarl@jabba.ess.harris.com fool, but what he does know that ain't so." -- Josh Billings