Newsgroups: alt.pub.dragons-inn From: kcj8521@ultb.isc.rit.edu (K.C. Johnson ) Subject: [BH] talking by the fire (Drift Inn) Message-ID: <1993May17.144959.4305@ultb.isc.rit.edu> Date: Mon, 17 May 1993 14:49:59 GMT Artimian walked over to the fire and sat down next to Miscrir. A long moment passed and Miscrir continued to stare into the fire seemingly unaware of Artimian. "Excuse me?" Artimian prodded. Still no reaction from Miscrir. "Umm, I was wondering. Since Ms Mirinara told us a bit about your past, I thought you might mention a few things about her past?" Artimian tried again. "He'll lose you know." Miscrir responded. "What? Who'll lose" Miscrir nodded vaguely in the direction of the table where Amberle and Toscon were engaged in a little card game. "He'll lose. No one can beat her with her own cards. Can't be done. She'll even find out his fortune from a little card game like that and he'll never know." "Could you explain some?" Artimian prompted. "If you must know then let me say a few words first". Miscrir stirred the fire with a stick for about a minute. Artimian began to fidget a bit. "Hmmmm what was I saying?" "Umm something about Amberle I think" "Oh, ok. Well her mother was a gypsy queen in the South. Their band was one of the few to journey to the outlying kindoms. The journeys allways lost money but her mother allways came. Amberle's brothers and sisters were all very talented. Each one displayed a different talent. Amberele was sent with the rest of her magically talented brothers and sisters off to a special school and upon her graduation she had worked her way back to the south to meet up with her mothers troup. It was then when I met her. Her mother could see peoples futures like Amberle can. Her mother had forbidden anyone to cast a fortune on me and Amberle wish to know why. So one night she laid her cards for me. She never said what the cards said and before anything else could happen her mother walked in. Amberle and her mother had a terrific fight. Somehow I was the topic of the fight. The fight ended with Amberle running off. Later do to some circumstances I ran off and searched for her. I felt kind of resposible. We traveled for awhile together until I had an accident. During that time I could point to five instances where it was evident she really was gifted but ..." Miscrir trailed off and returned to staring at the fire. better.