*Minty?*  


Kirimith's tired, concerned voice intruded itself into Mint's restless
thoughts.  She covered her ears in a futile effort to block the dragon from
her mind, and ducked her head beneath the surface of the lake once more.
She scrubbed fiercely at her scalp as she washed her hair in the clear blue
water, wishing she could wash her mind clean of the experience so easily.  


*You ought to get back to the Warren Minty. David is worried about you.  He
had Kaylin ask where you are a short while ago.....*  Kirimith tried
reasoning with her rider again.  *Let me tell him where to find you.*


Minty surfaced and swam towards the shore.  Kiri sounded tired and subdued
but Minty pushed that to the back of her mind, wallowing in her own misery.
 She scooped up another handful of sand and, hissing with pain from the
already raw skin, she scoured at her thighs, breasts and throat.   She
watched as a trickle of blood ran down her breast, and then dripped into
the water....


*He'll find you with or without my help you know?*  Kiri persisted  *You
need him.....*


*But he doesn't need me.*  Minty told her dully  


She winced as her fingers encountered a bite at the top of her thigh, and
nausea welled up in her as she remembered her own soft moans of
encouragement to D'nar's seeking mouth and tongue.  Doubled over she
retched dryly, her stomach long since empty.....


*This isn't doing you any good.*  Kiri scolded as Minty rinsed her mouth.
*It happened and you can't change it.....*


*But I didn't have to enjoy.*  Minty said through clenched teeth.  She
shivered with the cold, and wrapped her arms around herself.  Dry eyed she
gazed out across the lake....


<..>


She heard his footsteps in the sand long before he spoke, but held herself
still as he came nearer.  Her face was shadowed and he tilted her chin to
look into her eyes as he crouched beside her.


"Ye should come home love."  he told her gently  "Ye be cold and tired and
not yerself."  


He tried to hold her, but she twisted away from him, and he gasped as
moonlight glinted off metal in her hands.  She looked at him with dull
eyes, and then back at the knife she held loosely in her right hand.


"It seemed like a good way out."  she said flatly. She shrugged as he
reached out to take the blade from her fingers.  


Submitted by

Araminta, Kirimith's rider


NRPG  Quick.... persuade her it's not a good idea.... she's making me feel
depressed too! :(






-- 
Mint,  the voice and soul of

Timi Caplain  FO   USS Javelin       Caliban & Lute,          Dragon Lands
Lillith the Mage     Broken Lands     Minty, Kirimith's rider  Dragon Lands   
Naomi, QueenRider to Amethyst, Norwall's WarrenLady,  Dragon Lands

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