~~*~~ As she staggered towards her home and a dinner preparation left unfinished for a guest yet to arrive, Shyne Blake Kurakolis considered through a haze of physical pain her most recent encounter with her father. He was disappointed in her because she had allowed some outside force to tamper with her mind and he had put right the tampering, restoring her to the torn existance she had known just before, to the balance in her mind between light and dark. She couldn't help wonder why? When she should have been so much more to his liking as an obedient daughter. She had learned several things today. Things that surprised her, not least of which the fact that she was still alive. The first was that her unfeeling father had a temper, that they were more alike than she had ever dreamed possible. He felt. He got angry at her words. She had asked who was his heir, her or the baby son about to be born. And had told her he had no crown. He said he gave her a chance to be better when he summoned her into his life but did not expect her to follow his path or join his cause. "If you never wanted me, father, never wanted me to join you.. why did you summon me in the beginning? Why not simply leave me ignorant and powerless?" And Morgaine had raised his hand and struck his daughter for those words, angry at her lack of respect for him, at her questioning him in his own home, causing her to see his temper and showing his emotions for the first time. And Shyne, *his* daughter, child of fiery temprement had raised her hand to strike him back. He caught her wrist and sent shock waves of pain into her body, causing her to crumple on the floor at his feet, but she fought back, trying to return the spell to him. It enraged him and he attacked her with magic, but she resisted and managed to protect herself enough to beg him to stop, to plead to his reason. And his rage subsided, leaving disappointment at her pleading for life. "I would have prefered you accept death's touch than to scream out pleadingly," he said. "I am not ready to die, father." And he sent her away, with the parting words that there was always a place for her at the manor, after almost taking her life. Yes, Shyne had learned several things during this visit with her father. The first was that Morgaine, like Shyne, had a temper. The second was that she was a disappointment to him because he considered her weak. The third was that she would probably never be able to please him, but that she needed to earn his respect for some reason deep within her being that she didn't understand. And the fourth was that in spite of his protests that he expected nothing from her, he did in fact have plans for her. Because she'd enraged him to the point of fury and he'd let her live... ~~*~~ JaxyS :) _________________________________________________________________________ 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.
