Newsgroups: alt.pub.dragons-inn From: arsmith@nyx.cs.du.edu (Alan Smith) Subject: [Alone] [NTY, sorta] Ja'nis: in limbo. Message-ID: <1993Jul19.012511.6330@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> References: Date: Mon, 19 Jul 93 01:25:11 GMT Ja'nis, awake because of a dream (her brother turned into an artichoke and, well, it's a long story) padded her way down to the common room just in time to see one of the ubiquitous dark hooded figures stride out the door. She found the note he left, and showed it to Rowan, just coming out for the morning's trade. "Hmmm." Rowan said. "Serves him right for coming when there naturally ain't no people. He shoulda knocked on my door." "Wouldn't you have clobbered him?" Ja'nis asked. "Nah," The reply, "Just wanted to. Listener woulda played something in time." He nodded towards the minsterel, snoozing in his corner. "You know, you've been awful antsy after Palandun left, maybe you should go get him." "I can't leave the city, court order." "You don't have to, I doubt he's got far." Ja'nis repled by dashing out the door, taking a wild look around, then sprinting down the street. Finally she caught up with the c., h.s. and jogged to just in front of him. "Hi! My name's Ja'nis, I'm a recently-out-of-work mercenary." She held out her shaking hand. "My employer ran away and my friend is trying to catch him, which leaves me here with nothing to do, so, care to be shown the sights in our fair city of Generica?"