Newsgroups: alt.pub.dragons-inn From: abb6731@ritvax.isc.rit.edu (Mister Sinister) Subject: [JOI] the voyage Message-ID: <1993Apr2.134642.2921@ultb.isc.rit.edu> Date: Fri, 2 Apr 1993 13:46:42 GMT Sitting as he had all day watching the waves crest and fall, tempers flare and subside, Segoi listened now to the notes of Quaeros's flute. Unlike his own made from some strange material, the sound of Quaeros's was soft and natural. Dakin wandered by, doubtless coming from a fight with her nemesis, and stopped to look inquisitvely at him, sitting alone at the stern of the ship. The stears man paid him little attention, and Dakin wondered why he was just so big? Half turning she spied Laurnth going up from the cabin with a sickly expression on her face. 'Hmmmm must have been the food.' Then another thought struck her, she had never seen Segoi eat anything. Pondering all this she walked on slowly keeping her balance under the rising swells. Segoi watched her go. He wondered at one so young, and so full of questions about the important things in life. So young...he looked forward across the sea. Storm clouds were building away off to the port side, and a flash of lightning lit the waves far out there. A lone bird flew over the ship and away again before them as if messanger. Reaching under his cloak with a gloved hand he retrieved, for some inner pocket, a book, leather bound with a iron clasp. Not a large book but a strange one filled with runes, scratchings and other characters. Silently he sat reading this. Waiting... Mr. Sinister...