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Date Posted: 14:45:13 01/03/02 Thu
Author: Isobel and Barry
Subject: Defending the line
In reply to: Marz and Ravin 's message, "On the road again" on 10:28:42 01/03/02 Thu

Isobel pulled Ravin aside for a moment after he had assigned Alakbar his marching position beside her. "I will be right back," she said to the prince. "I am eager to hear more about your homeland," she assured him.

When she had Ravin out of his earshot she whispered, "Seņor Ravin, I am sure Erlic has already thought of this, but these people..." she gestured to the mountain tribe. "They know where we are heading... we asked them for directions, no? They will be able to tell any pursuers our course." Her dark eyes met his. "We should be prepared for trouble, I think." And with that she returned to her spot beside Alakbar.

"Do tell me more about the palace baths," she smiled.

- - -


When the horrible creatures erupted from the ground she quickly drew her father's sword. For some reason it seemed lighter than ever and felt quite warm to her touch, but she had no chance to think about it as Alakbar's clumsy shot with the spear had enraged the creature nearest them. She moved to attack the beast but Marz was already there, so she turned just in time to meet the attack of another of the creatures which had just burst forth from the dirt behind her. Her sword flashed in the sunlight as she swung it at the creature, lopping off one of its arms. It slashed at her with one of its other arms, making some sort of horrible clicking/hissing sound that horrified her on some sort of primitive, instinctive level. She shouted "Papa, dirige mi espada!" and her sword connected with the thing's neck, sending the head flying to land at her feet. She kicked it away in disgust, spitting at it. "Disgusting creature! Death for you!"

Isobel whirled to meet the attack of another of the things, slicing its thorax open sending a thing black ichor oozing out of the thing. "You will die, too, horrible beast!" She yelled and lopped off one of its legs. But the creature fell toward her and its sword connected with her hip, slicing a deep cut into her flesh. "You have ruined the only pantalones I had!" she hissed at the thing before burying the tip of her sword into its neck. She wrenched her sword free and laughed... she felt incredibly good right now, and she whirled like some foolish show-off before sending this one's head flying to land near her previous victim's.

In her hands, her father's sword seemed to hum with approval. It was, after all, the vessel that housed his essence, and it was proud of her.

*~*~*~*~*~*

Barry floated along beside Corum, looking occasionally at Yorik. He wondered if he had actually heard the skull speak that one time, or if it was his imagination. "Chee... I'm as bad as the addle-cove," he muttered to himself. He decided to scout ahead a little and floated up above the group, taking a look around. He thought he saw something glinting off metal or glass off in the distance behind them, but before he could wonder much about it there were shouts from below and he looked down to find the party under attack by... ewww what in the planes were those things? They looked like a cross between a baryaur and a githerazi.

Barry quickly flew back down, gathering speed, and slammed hard into the back of one of the things, sending it sprawling onto the ground. He bit off an appendage of some sort - he wasn't sure if it was an antenna or what - and then spewed a large python onto the creature. The snake promptly wrapped the thing in its coils and began squeezing. The monster's arms were trapped in the snake's coils and soon it ceased to struggle. The python then slowly devoured it, pulling the body bit by bit down its long throat until all that was left was a large lump about halfway down the snake's body. The python promptly fell asleep.

Meanwhile Barry had hurled himself at another of the creatures, but just as he got there Isobel beheaded it, sending the thing's noggin flying straight at Barry. It hit him and sent him careening off into a nearby rock, where he hit with a crack and fell to the ground.

He lay there stunned for a while, then started yelling. "Awww for the... I've got DIRT in my eye!! Someone get this pikin' DIRT out of my EYE for cryin' out loud!!!"

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