Carie watched as Lakoda walked out the door.  She started humming a song
she knew from childhood.  That lasted about 5 minutes.

"4 weeks to 10 weeks?" She shrieked in her mind.

*It could be much worse*

"Oh?"

*Yes.  We could be dead.*

Carie paused, not having a response.  Slowly, she lifted the bedsheet,
noting the two patches on her chest.  She giggled slightly to herself.
Another few inches would have left a nasty scar on one of her breasts.
Not that anyone would have seen that, with her luck with Men.

"Ok.  So it wasn't the best plan...Thank You."

*For?*

"For helping them with the timing...and for putting up with me."

*No matter what, you cannot change your nature.*

"No...that's not what I'm sorry about.  I don't want to put you at risk.
In Ralengarde, it was easier...if anyone paid for my mistakes, it was
me...I didn't have to worry over someone else's life."

*You do not have to worry over mine.  I chose you...I know who you are,
and who you have been.  You are good, no matter what you did in Childhood*

Carie sighed, and moved to wipe a tear from her eye.  Her muscles ached as
she did so.

"I cut it pretty close that time, didn't I?"

*Yes,* Fiera replied, letting a Draconic sigh slip by.  It would be a
little while before Carie learned that the man she had mutilated had
survived.

************************************************************************

"You did WHAT!"  Krakla's mind screached out at the drone.

"I brought one of their children back.  Now they have No Choice but to
give in to our demands.  It is right!"

"No, it issss...not," the Wraith Queen said, sliding into Human Speech.

"You misunderstand, my Queen.  The Humans are petty.  They care for each
other, and they especially care for the younger, the more infirm, of their
race.  We have a Piece to trade them for the amulet we require."

"Take it back," Krakla said quietly.

"We cannot!  They will destroy us as soon as we get in range of their
Beasts."

"TAKE IT BACK!" Krakla's Mind yelled full force at it.

Back at the Warren, Fiera and several of the other Dragons looked up,
having heard a strange voice in their minds yelling "Take it back!".

Krakla's eyes blazed at the wraith in front of her, as she backhanded it.
It landed against the wall with a thump.

She then walked over to the human baby, and picked it up, cradling it, and
bringing one almost-hand down the side of it's cheek, causing no harm to
it.

She eyed the Wraith.

"Take it back.  Take it back, and stand in the center of their warren and
await judgement.  IF YOU FAIL THIS....you will placed in one of the
Sarcophagi, there to starve for eternity.  Is this in anyway unclear?"

"My Queen," He started.

"ISSSSS  THISSS IN ANY WAY UNCLEAR!"  Krakla bellowed.

"No, My Queen," The Wraith finished.

"Good.  We are not Barbarianssss...we will get what we wish, but only when
they see that we are differed than those we fight.  That is why we need
the Amulet.  Now Go.."

Krakla watched as the wraith picked the human child up, and left the cave.
A small sigh escaped her at the thougth of losing another of her children,
but they had to learn.  The old ways were gone...


Carie and Fiera
 And Krakla
  AKA Chris Canary

NRPG:  Any Questions, send em..*G*

Christopher Canary *Per@Indy.Net* (Per, Michel, Reece, Espeth, Carie 
Milak, Malk Bromitz) Aspiring Actor (Please, Yell), President of 
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