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Subject: Last but not least.

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Date Posted: 16:00:49 09/26/02 Thu
In reply to: Immarra 's message, "song of healing" on 10:49:12 09/26/02 Thu

Kemanoral woke up with a start, mumbling something about his life flashing before his eyes before noticing Immarra slumped over him. Ariel sat back for a moment to catch her breath, and Altrez looked ready to pass out himself.

"Immarra would be the last one, Ariel," he panted. "At least she stayed with us long enough to heal the boy."

"But I'll be damned if she dies because of me," Ariel said, and crawled over to Immarra. "It's a good thing none of these things were poisonous, or we'd be in over our heads."

Kemanoral sat up and put Immarra's head on his lap, a perfect mirror of what she had done for him. Ariel placed her hands over Immarra even when Kemanoral shot her a look of death.

One by one the other elves on the beach started to gather around. Ariel's symbol glowed very faintly, signaling she was extremely low on her reserves of magic.

A sound started, the scuffling of claws on sand, and Wyrd shoved his nose through the circle of elves around Ariel and the others. And another sound joined it. Immarra's grandmother started singing. Then another started and another until, slowly the circle was nothing more than a soft choir of elven voices. Ariel concentraited.

A mist ebbed from Wyrd's mouth, and seeped along the ground. A stray scale from the dragon emerged from the sand, spiked and still as lethal as when it had fallen. Narrowing his eyes he picked up the scale in his mouth, and broke from the circle, leaving the forgottens to do their magic, and the elves to do their music. His form disappeared in a barrage of vertical lines, and he was gone.

Ariel felt the magic that was innate to all music, and she held her breath, forcing out what little magic she had left into Immarra before she lowered her hands and fell backwards, passing out.

Altrez stood up, shakily and made his way between Immarra and Ariel, then flopped down there in the sand. It was only going to be a matter of time before they would see if Ariel's effort made any difference at all.

The singing continued.

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