Hero or villain. 

Within the week he would find out. 

Everything was set. Shadow's men were all in position. Now nothing 
was left to do but wait. Two day from now the separate parts of the 
caravan would be coming together. Believing themselves safe from 
the raiders because of their large numbers. That would be their 
first mistake. If everything went off as planed, the caravan would 
disappear without a trace. Or seam too.

Shadow had done his homework well during the planning of the raid. 
He'd scouted out the same route the caravan would be taking, buy 
land and from the air, looking for the perfect spot to ambush it. 
And he'd found it. 

Diemis had willingly aided his human in the air surveys, taking 
any excuse to fly with his human. It was on one of these trips 
that Shadow had found the caves.

>From the ground, the caves where all most undetectable, unless 
you knew they were there. A person could walk right by the hidden 
entrance and miss it. If it had not been for the far seeing eyes 
of the green, Shadow would never have discovered them himself. As 
it was, the caves would work out as a fine place to hide the 
stolen tithe offerings until such time the raider bands had been 
rounded up.

Should there be a search by the Warrens, (and he knew there would 
be) unless they knew exactly where the opening to the cave was, 
they could fly over it a hundred times and still not find it with 
the extra work he had done on it.

Three days to a week and it would all be over. One way or another. 
Trap had decided that his life as The Shadow had gone on long 
enough. It was time for him and his green to go home.

He'd made a promise to his sister, one he intended upon keeping. 
And with what he had put her through during the last three years, 
he owned her that much. 

But would he be treated as a hero for finally bring down the 
raiders, or would he be sent from the Warren and branded a 
Warrenless rider for his part in the planed raid on the tithe 
caravan.

Only time would tell.

To be back at the Warren, apart of his sister's life once again, 
would be like a dream come true. He had always meant to bring her 
there one day. To get her away from their sour faced father, and 
his new wife. He had known she wasn't happy, and how it had torn 
her apart when he had left. 

Oh how he had missed her. Her sunny smile, and the beauty of her 
singing. She had said her new mate had been trained up as a bard. 
Did they sing duets together? He wondered when the memory of 
another's singing voice came to mind. A beautiful clear voice that 
had haunted his dreams for the last two and a half years........

Would she want to see him after all this time. Would she still 
care for him. Or had what ever feelings she had for him turn to 
hate after the way he had deceived her?

"Soon," he told himself. "Soon and it would all be over and he 
could go back home. As he drifted off to sleep, a smile crept over 
his full lips. Somewhere in the night time sounds he could swear he 
could hear someone singing Amber Moonlight..........

Soon.
*****Submitted by:*********************
Barbara
Voices of:
Tera & Sundellath (Telnor)
Ga'brin & Preston (Telnor
Dan'yar & Shinner (Soon of Cleft)
"The Shadow" (parts unknown)
Dragonlands

Fatala of Kindis Weyr