Newsgroups: alt.pub.dragons-inn
Subject: Redlin drowns
Message-ID: <1993May12.205139.6028@dct.ac.uk>
From: mcspikgfm@dct.ac.uk (Melandra)
Date: 12 May 93 20:51:39 +0100


	The cry came from below her and she knew the voice. Opening her eyes
she gazed as Redlin slowly dropped below the surface of the water. In an
instant the spell was cast and she dropped into the water. With a flick she
was off in his direction. The sea was cold but not dangerously so, and Redlin
would not have cried out for no reason, so she had to assume something had 
attacked him. Towards the surface there seemed to be some straggling vegetation
or something in the water. As she swam closer, the less plant-like they looked.
The long filaments dangled down from below their bulbous head, which were only
visible thanks to the slightly blue tint they possessed. There looked to be 
about 6 of them, all floating in a small group just below the surface. Maybe
these were the cause, but where could Redlin be?

	Through the fairly clear water, she could see a glinting far off and 
she headed towards it. Within a few seconds she was at the bottom and found 
the sword that had been caught by the filtering moonlight. Desperately, she 
scanned the bottom for any sign of him. She flicked her tail and headed off 
in a small circle upwards looking at the seabed. Rocky formations and beds of
seaweed covered the floor and she almost didn't see his body. It was underneath
a large dark patch of kelp that was billowing with the current. Getting him up
from there would be the problem, if she could do it at all. 

	She pushed herself below him rasping against the sand. Once he had 
sagged on top of her, she started up towards the surface and the air. Within 
seconds she had him above the surface as she headed towards the only bit of
beach she could see. He didn't seem to be breathing and she sped as fast as
she could towards the wet sand. Within seconds she was on the beach and her
dolphin form was dropped painfully quickly. Her hands turned him over and 
pushed the water out of his lungs. He coughed and started to scream in pain
as the jellyfish's stings wracked his body with intense pain. All Melandra
could do was to hold on to him as his body spasmed. Within minutes, his
body stopped its twitching and he seemed to settle back into a slow, laboured
rythym of breathing and coughing. 

	Mel visualised her room at the Inn, and tried to place herself and 
Redlin in the room. With a fair degree of trepidation she released the spell
and they arrived. She quickly got rid of the sodden clothes he had been wearing
and used some of own dry ones to dry him off. Then she picked him up and
gently placed him on her bed covering him up with her bedclothes. 

	He shivered and called out in his sleep for hours and Mel had to go and
tell Rowan what had happened as he would have had to have come to complain 
about the noise eminating from the room. After a few hours of this, she half
dozed off for a while until she was woken by a shout. "Shelsa, come back,
please come back. I need you". There seemed to be real feeling behind every
word as he shifted and tossed in the bed. Melandra got up and sat on the side
of the bed, talking to him in a soft calming voice and stroking his forehead.
Her arms clamped around him, to stop his jerking and slowly his cries died
and movements stopped. She bent down over him and kissed him just above the 
bridge of his nose. He murmured approval, and she brought her aim down to kiss
him full on the lips. With that she lay down beside him on the bed and draped
herself over his body and the bedsheet, and went to sleep.