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- From: dementia@cheshire.oxy.edu (Daniel Steven Reinker)
- Subject: [blade] Interlude: Meshtak the hunted
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.202723.4627@cheshire.oxy.edu>
- Organization: Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA 90041 USA.
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 20:27:23 GMT
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- Meshtak runs through the rapidly darkening city, hearing far
- behind him the clomp clomp of the guardsmen following him.
- He tears through the back alleys until he is completely disoriented
- and eventually he goes through so many narrow cracks that
- the guardsmen give up looking for him, and head back to their
- commander, hoping that the arrow in the draga's shoulder would
- bring him down.
- And indeed, Meshtak is weak and delirious, tired from running
- and faint from the blood dripping out of his shoulder wound.
- He thanks the spirits of good fortune when he no longer hears
- the guardsmen behind him, but still runs, fearing a trick.
- Finally he can run no longer, and he lets his weight pull him
- onto the doorstop in front of a nearby doorway. His sight wavers,
- blurs, and he nearly passes out. His mind is racing, chasing images,
- almost going without his control, and Meshtak begins to think that
- unconsciousness will be harder and harder to resist. He starts
- to hear a loud barking, and he can only think of the valaks, the
- dog-like predators of the plains. They are closing in, he thinks.
- Then he hears a voice. It is soft and pure. "Hush, Idgie, quiet, I'm
- going to take a look." He hears the door open, and is enveloped by a
- soft light. A feminine gasp, and he is being rolled over. His eyes
- focus...almost...on a womans soft features, and then he passes out.
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- Meshtak the Draga
- [ADMIN: Sorry for the delay folks, for some reason internet has
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