[Anis Vaddon]

Anis watched her daughter dancing -- if you could call it that, when the
young man seemed determined to keep Chance's feet from touching the floor.
Still, Katla's eyes were happy, if a trifle calculating as she watched Lord
Gingle speaking to a woman who looked vaguely familiar.

She watched the woman take to the stage, and the memories clicked
together... That bard who had come a few years ago, with her daughter...
The one whose quiet sniping had kept her lovely and talented daughter down
and somewhat sad.  When Anis had realized what the woman was like, she'd
asked Jerlyn to dismiss the woman.  She'd become fond of Merrissa, who had
been willing to put of with and ill and peevish Katla, whose whims in music
could range from repetitive to wildly inconsistent.

Anis shrugged and laughed at a joke told by one of the nearby riders and
dismissed the woman from her mind.  Merrissa, according to Jerlyn, had
become the Junior Queenrider, and Anis figured that it should be more than
enough to gall the arrogant musician.

She had quite begun to enjoy the party again when Jerlyn's eyes noticably
cooled as he watched someone arrive. 

A rich, well trained voice rippled to her ears.  "Lord Vaddon, are you
enjoying this evening?"

"And what is not to enjoy!" said Jerlyn, smiling. "My favorite daughter
and my son Derry, joined to dragons!"

"Oh!"  Analise was taken aback and without thought blurted, "Not your
crippled daughter?"

Anis turned, smiling slightly at the huge social gaffe.  "Why yes....
Analisa? Analyn?  Analise... yes, it's Analise, isn't it?... I'm so
forgetful of the bards who go through our home..."  Which was a lie, they
had a regular bard that they shared with the village, and she was very fond
of him.  "Our crippled daughter...  Didn't you want to by one of the horses
she trained?... No matter.  We're immensely proud of her..."

"Yes... and of Derric, too... Say... Didn't that lovely daughter of yours
join a dragon?  I was under the impression that she had joined the junior
queen... You must be tremendously proud of her..."

[Tag if you want, or leave it there if you don't ;)]

NRPG --
Sorry it's so short, but I've got to deal with Derry, and I haven't
personally thought of anything appropriately obnoxious to do to Lord
Gingle...  Although Timma....  *hmms, considering*

Respectuflly Submitted
Jill E. Flansburg
Lord and Lady Vaddon


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