(Bleh... It's a post.)
~*~*~*~*~*~ "Oh! Y' shoulda seen it, Rey!" "Zoom! Right over our heads!" "It musta been a thousand miles long! It was huge! It was gigantimous!" "What was it, Jin?" Reya laughed, kneeling as the young boy ran across the room. His feet thumping against the old wood floor, his skinny arms stretched wide to wrap tightly about her neck in a hug. "I don' know. It was huge!" he exclaimed, bouncing excitedly. "It was, Weya... I couldn't see the sun!" another boy piped up in awe, shorter then the first, and Jin's junior by at least a year. He broke off in broken giggles as Abigail, a beautiful grey and white husky, licked his face. Always good and careful with the children, she nudged her cold nose under the young boys hand. "You couldn't?" Reya released Jin, and smiled affectionately at Del. "That -is- big," she rose from her crouch and stepped towards the other boy as she patted Abby's back. "Mm hm," Del nodded, bobbing his head until his chin touched his chest. "Miss Laramie was real upset, I think she was scared," his brown eyes went large, "I think she was scared." "She was!" Jin stated loudly, puffing out his small chest and coming to stand beside them. "So scared she dropped her purse and started dragging us back home. But I saw it, and picked it up before anyone could steal it." "Thank you, Jin," Reya smiled at the boy, "I'm very proud of you." He stood a bit taller and prouder at that. "Now both of you... Do you think you could help make sure the others are all washed up and ready for dinner?" "Sure!" Del piped in before Jin, the younger boy grabbing his arm and pulling him after him down the hall. Reya shook her head, watching the two boys scrambling down the hall with Abigail trotting at their heels. She dropped her hands upon her slim hips and spun about on her heel. It was nearly suppertime, and Miss Laramie would need her help. The woman was like a mother to her, and to many of the other children. Fifteen of them at any given time. Miss Laramie was a blessing to the orphange. She could run the place on her own if need be. Reya glanced towards the cracking ceiling, and noticed a few splintering floorboards as she walked through the aging house. This wasn't the only orphange in Mysthaven, and it was likely the smallest. Reya had grown up here herself, and simply never left. Miss Laramie became her mother, and the orphange became her home. Now she helped out as much as she could. "What was this about a dragon?" Reya pushed open the door to the kitchen, reaching to pull an apron from the hook near the door and pull it over her head. "Dagon? Wha?" Miss Laramie was a short woman, and a tad plump. Her cooking was wonderful, and her smile cheery. Right now she was distracted as she pulled a pair of loaves of bread from the stone oven above the kitchen hearth. Her hair was almost fully grey and crows feet wrinkled at the corners of her eyes. "The kids are going on about something flying and blocking out the sun in town today," Reya leaned against a table and lifted her slim shoulders in a loose shrug. "I could only assume it was a dragon," she said calmly, shifting as she slipped a hand into a pocket. "Dragons, smagons... You read too much, Rey," Miss Laramie shook her graying head as she plopped the fresh baked loaves onto a plate. "What would you say it was then?" Reya chuckled, drawing the gold talisman from her pocket and turning it in her hands. "Did I show you what I found the other day?" she pushed off from the wooden table and stepped towards the other woman, "Did it look like one of these?" Etched on the golden disk was a pair of serpents, each biting the other's tail. "Oh, I couldn't tell, Reya," she paused long enough to look at the pendant as she wiped flour from her hands off on her apron, "But I bet that would fetch a nice price. You could get a new dress, and we could thatch the roof. Maybe even fix the casement on those windows upstairs." "Sell it?" Reya looked at the other woman, her hand closing around it quickly. "I couldn't just do that. This might belong to someone.. it might be important.." "It would put a roof over our head," the old woman said simply, hefting a tray of food and looking at the younger girl pointedly, "Come now.. the kids are hungry," she nodded her head towards the swinging door just as she nudged her way through. "I'll be right there," Reya replied quietly, her grey eyes fixed on the talisman as she turned it in her hand, her finger tracing the words etched into it. 'Corwyn Fy' .. She frowned quietly as she tucked it safely away, back in her skirts, and moved to help with serving supper. ~*~*~*~*~*~ Sarah _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp -- To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives & Other DMI Lists: http://www.dragonmyst.f2s.com/lists.php3
