(NRPG-Lucky me!  I got accepted into a really good Japanese school.  The best
math and science in the world.  This means I'll be gone for a long time.
 Remove me from mailing lists.  Lavi'll keep me updated with letters.  Wish
me luck!)

     Saz grumbled in her cave.  She was still lonely, even with a rider.
 Could it be that she missed Dor, that brown that flew her for her first (and
last) mating flight?  Could it be she yearned for her children?  Why did it
always happen to her?

     She ripped another gem from the wall and crunched it.  It was a diamond,
but she swallowed it anyway.  Who was to know that she ate more than she
turned in?  She was melancholy and distracted, and almost ate a large piece
of coal.

     <How clumsy of me.  I should know by now the stuff's poisonous to me.
 Tried it enough times in the wild.  Last time I ate it I was sick for
months.>

     Her rumble of laughter nearly shook the cave apart.  In fact, it was
collapsing.

     <HELP!!>

    And then the walls caved in, and Sazarnth knew no more.

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And I am not to be found by ANYONE, understand?  I'll be found when I come
back from Japan

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