NRPG NOTE:  After talking with Barb, we've agreed that this post stands as
is.  Sorry for the confusion.

-Arlene

[[[ This happens late from what I take it... I'll back post Kanler's day in
Jasra in my next post... But please remember he was gone from the Warren
most of the day and didn't return until late evening... Also.. someone..
(maybe me or Jill) should really do something with the end of the raid on
the hunting lodge...
Barb ]]]
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*For Rent; One Big Brother Type*


<My rider The Warrenlady is asking a favor of us,> Sariss told his rider
minutes after they had arrived home from their day in Jasra. It had been
nice Sariss thought seeing his old friends, and he knew his rider had felt
the same way.

It was a good thing they were going to do. Others would think so too. It had
been to long since they had left.

<What is it my friend?>> the tall blond rider asked even as he stopped
reaching for the buckles that would unfasten the saddle from the dragons
back.

<<There is some new people... one a small girl who has been... hurt?> Sariss
was saying but being a dragon he really didn't catch the whole meaning.
<That she would like for you to meet and find places for them to live.>

Kanler frown. <<Since when is finding living accommodations for new people
my job?>> he asked, finding the request strange.

<<Chrysthal said her rider said you would see when you saw the girl. She
thinks what the girl needs is kindness and maybe a .. big.. brother type..
someone ...she can find it to be ..safe.. around?>

<<And I'm that someone safe?>>

<She said yes... the girl... Someone had mated with her and she didn't want
this to happen, and now the girl is afraid. Chrysthal's rider thinks you
will know what to do.>

Why would... No matter, he thought remounting his dragon and giving the
order to head down towards the Warren offices. Then seconds later a thought
came to him and he asked Sariss to have Chrysthal tell her rider that they
would be there.. in a little while. He had a quick trip to make first.

<<Tell her I think I know how to make the girl feel a little.. safer...>>

With the message past, the dragon teleported and the two of them popped back
into the skies about his family home, seconds later.

......

"Lord Kanler what brings you here at this time of night?" the servant who
opened the door to his pounding asked as he ushered the eldest of the
family's get into the front room.

"I've need of my sister Miller, is she home?"

"Certainly sir. She's in the sitting room with your father at the moment,"
the man answered and followed after the rider when he headed that way.

"KANLER!!" her greeting was every bit as nice as he always remembered. The
two of them had always been close.

"Son... All goes well?" his father asked as he rose to take the hand his son
was offering out to him.

"As well as they could have father," he replied, not wanting to talk about
the deaths that had incurred during the raid. His sister didn't need to hear
about them. "We think we got everyone involved with the Cult but one. Lord
Calarais was said to have been there but in the end he was no where to be
found."

"I assume steps are being taken to find him?" Lord Kanen asked harshly. He
hated to think of the trouble a man like Calarais could cause if left free
to long.

"You can count on that father," Kanler's voice held a hardness neither his
sister or father had ever heard before. But then knowing the reason, neither
blamed him.

"But right now I'm here for another reason," he told them, his tone softer
now as he turned to his sister.
"A rider brought a young girl into the Warren.. on search.. and well.. I
really hate to ask this of you Lenasha, but the girl had been abused and I
think she'd respond better right now to a woman then she would a man... even
one as nice as me."

"But you have plenty of women in the Warren Kan.. Why me? Not that I won't
go if father says I can," she was quick to reassure him.

"Because you're Landbound and the daughter of a house that has dragonriders
coming from it," he sat down beside her on the couch and began to explain
his way of thinking. "The Warren life may seem a bit strange to her at first
being from a Landbound holding, but if she's to become a rider she'll have
to learn to accept the differences... I figure that you might be the best
person to sort of ease her into the transaction... plus at the same time
giving her someone she can talk to if she needs too. She one she can trust."

Lenasha turned to look at her father, who nodded his head in a way that let
her decide for herself.

"I'd like to help if I can," she assured him. "You know I will.. but in the
end I'll have to come back here."

"I'm sure Damira will understand, if that's what you're worried about."

"No.. it's not him.. well yes maybe it is," she laughed a bit. "I mean we
haven't been apart much since we got engaged and well...."

"Tell you what.. if you come to Whiteriver and help me out on this, I'll
make sure to go and fetch the love of your life every once in a while so you
won't get to feeling to lonely."

And so it was that Lenasha was with Kanler on Sariss when the two re-entered
the skies over Whiteriver a few minutes later.

"I'm sure you remember my sister Lady Lenasha, Merissa?" he made the
introductions" when they had finally arrived in the Warrenlady's office some
15 minutes after the Queen's first summons.

"She decided she wanted to come spend sometime with me here, since I rarely
get home anymore.. as she would have you believe," Kanler quipped then
winked at the young girl in the room with them, and saw her weak smile in
return.

"For a big brother he's all right," Lenasha turned to the girl as if letting
her in on a secret. "But every once in a while you have to remind him that
there's more to life then his dragon. Are you new here in the Warren? I
don't remember seeing you on any of my other visits?"

Kanler stood back and let his sister take over. Lenasha was good with people
and he knew she would soon have the girl a little more at ease. With a
slight nod of his head he motioned Merissa and the other man to step back
and leave the two girls alone for a minute to get to know eachother.

"So what happened?" he asked, turning from one to the other for an
explanation.

......

"Kanler.... Kanler????"

Lenasha had to call out her brothers name twice before he heard her.

"Yes brat?"

"I take it my usual room is ready for me during my stay here is it not?"
Lenasha asked, imposing a bit of the Ladyship she could be known for in her
voice when she was of mind too.

Kanler turned to Merissa who nodded.

"I suppose it is," he drawled.

"Good then I've asked Ashlny to stay with me if she'd like while she's here.
you know how big that apartment is and that I hate being alone in it." she
lied with a skill she rarely had to use, but every woman knew.

"So will you Ashlny?" she turned back to the girl. "Stay with me for a
while, while I'm here visiting my brother?"

.......

A bit later they all left the office so Kanler could escort them to their
new homes for the night. He took the rider who had brought in the young girl
to the Quarter masters office to show him what was available and let him
chose.

"If you can't find one tonight then just pick any one you find free right
now and come back in the morning to have a better look," he told the man.

Then the two of them rejoined the ladies in the hall and together they left
the Warren offices.

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nrpg:

Everyone please feel free to fill in some talk in the places I left for
them....

Kanler makes a good big brother... he's safe. His heart belongs to his Mate
Katla and he won't even look at any other women... so Ashlny will be safe
with him.

Lenasha will be around as long as Ashlny needs someone to talk to and to
explain about anything Ashlny might question. While not a rider herself,
Kanler and Lenasha family have long been supporters of the Warren and
understand that living in one can be different from living a life in the
outside.....

*****Submitted by: ******

Kanler & Sariss
Lady Lenasha (visiting the Warren)
Lord Kanen
Whiteriver Warren & Kanen Estates

aka
Barbara