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- Newsgroups: alt.callahans
- Path: sparky!uunet!pilchuck!li
- From: li@Data-IO.COM (Phyllis Rostykus)
- Subject: Re: A Little Light
- Message-ID: <1992Nov22.223014.8939@data-io.com>
- Sender: news@data-io.com (The News)
- Organization: Data I/O Corporation
- References: <1992Nov13.185039.15139@data-io.com> <keulen.722404425@possum>
- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 22:30:14 GMT
- Lines: 31
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- In article <keulen.722404425@possum> keulen@possum.csu.murdoch.edu.au (Mike van Keulen) writes:
- >
- >Splash wanders up to the bar, puts down a 2 dollar coin and asks Mike:
- >"I'll have a long black coffee, and another espresso for Liralen; make 'em
- >hot - I'm not sure how long until she wakes up." Taking the brightly
- >coloured recycling mugs he walks over to where Liralen is sleeping quietly
- >and sets the mugs down gently on the table. Sitting himself down, Splash
- >watches the slowly fading light in the hemisphere, smiling to himself, as
- >he awaits Liralen's wakening.
-
- By the flickering light of the fire, she sleeps soundly, deeply. For this
- Place is a 'safeplace'. One of the few she has known thoroughly. So safe,
- she has slept in two strange houses as a result of it, and had no
- nightmares, no unease, even to the turning of her back for someone that she
- should have been frightened of.
-
- The scent of the espresso lays its richness on the air, or is it the
- presence of Splash! ? As it touches her nose, her eyes open. She lies
- still, only her eyes moving, at first, to see where it is that she is,
- what it is that is happening. It is a trained wakening, to be quiet,
- utterly still on waking. At seeing Splash watching the light in the
- hemisphere she smiles and then moves a little to alert him of her waking.
- Then softly, "Hi." She blinks at the brightly coloured mugs and says,
- "Wow." and sits up in the chair. She breaths in a great big breath, her
- eyes closing simply at the pleasure of breathing and stretches. Then, with
- a smile still softened by sleep, she says, "Hiya. How you doin'?"
-
- --
- Liralen Li | "... and how you feel can make it real | - _US_
- aka Phyllis Rostykus | Real as anything you've seen | Peter
- li@Data-IO.com | Get a life with this dreamer's dream." | Gabriel
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