Newsgroups: alt.pub.dragons-inn
Subject: We've Got To Stop Meeting Like This
Message-ID: <1993Feb24.133527.5994@wkuvx1.bitnet>
From: hilanse@wkuvx1.bitnet
Date: 24 Feb 93 13:35:27 CST

	Wonko shivered in his trenchcoat as he looked out from the
tree on the plain. His thoughts swirled in his mind until he thought
his head would burst. He was thinking about the extraordinary events
that shaped his life up to this point and brought him to this new
place. He wondered whether he should thank the man responsible for his
desertion in this new world, or vow to hunt him down and kill him.
Wonko, alas, has little motivation, and his willpower had been weak of
late. He decided to leave it be, and his thoughts turned to the
woman he had met a few hours previous, as he nodded into sleep.

	THUMP!

	At first he thought it was his ultimate fear realized, that
he had fallen from the tree he climbed the night before for safety. He
opened his eyes to the glare of midday and went entirely silent when
he discovered that there was someone else nearby, and that he had not
fallen from the tree, but the intruder had dropped a heavy pack to the
ground. The new arrival was clad in grey, and of short stature. Wonko
sat still in the leafy shade observing him. He extracted a small
package from his pack and opened it, the aroma of fettucini alfredo
drifted up through the branches and Wonko's stomach got the better of
him. He would make friends.

	"Hello Wonko.", was not the first thing he expected from the
visitor, nor was ,"Been a long time." These were, however, exactly the
phrases that the grey man spoke. Wonko squinted, there was a little
resemblance there, but no, he was long dead. "Don't believe it, do
you?" the man said. Wonko goggled as what should have been a corpse
persisted in talking. "I knew I'd find you here," he said, and Wonko's
veil of ignorance lifted, he'd seen enough truly weird things to
believe everything he personally witnessed, its just that it takes
awhile for a hurt brain to fully absorb this sort of thing. Wonko
offered his hand, Eldarath took it, they hugged and Wonko grabbed the
fettucini, plopped onto the ground, "So where ya been?", nonchalantly,
as he began shoveling the food into his mouth.

More Wonko To Come...