OOC: This is one of my favourite stories, and I htink one of my best because it was symbolic and a turning point in Shyne's life at the time. >Shyne sat on the river bank with a small pile of pebbles on her lap. Each >one represented the men who had touched her life. >She picked up one and rubbed the smooth brown pebble between her fingers. >"This one is for Blake," She said. "Who taught me to fight and whose name >I >wear after my own, in place of the father I never had." >She raised the pebble to her lips, then tossed it slowly into the river, it >landed with a soft plop and the current took it downstream. >Her fingers closed next over a pebble with a red tinge to its colour. >"This is for Zosh, who reminded me, in his sadness, of Blake," she said. >"A >vampire helped him lose his way." >She gave the pebble a sad smile and cast it after the first. >Shyne ran her hand over the pile of pebbles, sorting them, and drew out >another one, small, speckled. >"This one is for Jinnai, whose love I wanted," she said. "He was unable to >give it." >She caressed the pebble gently in her hand a moment, almost regretfully, >then tossed it into the water, and watched it roll away. >Her hand found a shiny black pebble next, she watched the light glint off >the surface. >"This one is for Sephyr, whose friendship I tried to earn," she said. "He >is possessed by a demon and tried to kill me." >She threw the pebble far into the current, with a silent wish for Sephyr's >salvation. >Two pebbles left, Shyne looked at them. >She picked them up and ran them through her hands, almost lovingly. >One was pure white, small, smooth. The other was grey, the edges a little >rough. >She lifted the white pebble and looked at it, turning it in her fingers. >"This one is for Durandal, cool and tortured, the dragon lord, who gave me >a >pendant which showed me I was becoming part of his heart." >She picked up the grey pebble, rubbing the rough edges with her thumb. >"This is for Christof, open and strong, the lone wolf, who gave me a wolf >carved with his own hands and told me he loved me." >Shyne looked at the river, watching it roll and flow, she raised both >pebbles to her lips, brushing first one and then the other with a soft >kiss. > Then drawing back her hand, she cast one pebble into the water and >watched >it join the others, rolling with the current. She looked at the pebble >still in her hand, unable to part with it, she put it in her pocket... > >finis.. >JaxyS > > >________________________________________________________________________ >Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com > _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com. -- To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe dragontales" in the body of the message.
