Subject: [porc] A change is in the sky....
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1998 14:43:36 -0800
From: jdavis109@juno.com (JAMES R DAVIS)
To: dagrfall@ods.com

>However I was glad that we arrived at the Inn at last I had a quick
>meal of roast "something" watched with amusement how Jemalas was
stuffing himself, very un-Lord like, but since the only thing on my mind
was a good hot bath, that smell of
>the dead Dragon just didn't wanna leave my nose, I begged the Inn keeper

>for the bath and excused my self from the table, telling Zarth not to
worry,
>after all, I was only going to have a bath, wasn't I ?

Seeing Mea excuse herself, I pushed the platter away, realizing what a
pig I had made of myself.  I had to get some air.  I strode to the door,
exited and moved to a small hill in the center of town, some fifty feet
from the front door of the tavern.  I lay there, staring up at the cloudy
sky.  I closed my eyes as a cool, refreshing breeze sweeped through town.
 The same breeze parted the clouds above me, allowing the moon to shine
through.  The full moon.

I felt the change almost immediately.  I felt as though I were going to
explode as silver scales slid out of my skin.  I expanded, ripping
through and destroying my clothing and armor.  "Ahhhhha ha ha ha" I said
as my scream of pain turned into a laughing roar of triumph.  I closed my
eyes, now the size of tower shields, and felt the anger flowing through
me.  Anger at the Soverian gods.  Anger at the dragon who had wounded my
shoulder.  Above all was the need to exact revenge.  A brief glimmer of
sanity flashed through the madness as people poured out of the tavern.
Catris underwent a similiar change, though she turned into more of a
hatchling than an adult.  The change reflects how innocent one is and the
color of the dragon corresponds with the closest mind set.  I turned,
about to breath on them, the air in my lungs cooling to arctic
temperatures.  Unable to control it once it formed, I arched up and
sprayed my attack into the heavens, which then came down as a gentle
snow.  I bent my neck down and smashed through the window of Mea's room,
saying as gently as possible "Cast a pacify animal on me.  The dragon
raging through me is hard to control."

Mea screamed, wrapped a towel about herself, and said a few words.  Her
hands lit up with a nimbus of blue energy and light.  She touched my
snout gently and the rage within my mind cleared, leaving only my
thoughts.  No hatred, no seething anger.  I was so at peace that I rested
my head on the floor of the room, till Mea kicked me in the snout and I
woke up.

I pulled my head back and looked down at the people.  Children were
coming out now, playing in the snow, a rarity in the middle of summer.
People casted light spells and had a merry time.  Catris was a bit leery
of this, but I was confident.  I crouched and jumped, winging off into
the night sky.  The air flowing past me was exhilirating.  I was a bit of
a novice at flying, but I was doing good.  Gargoyles and giant bats moved
away at my passing.  I was over the town square, flying straight up.
Then the sun rose.

I found that my temporary lycanthropy is directly connected to the moon's
rays.  As soon as they were gone, so was the dragon.  My body shifted
back to Sidhe form, this time painlessly.  The only problem is that I was
some two thousand feet off the ground.

What a site I must have made.  A naked high sidhe, falling like a rock in
the dawn light.  I tried to activate one of those sciences I learned from
the guild, but my mind was frantic, moving much too fast to enter the
trance-like state required.  I changed to a spread-eagle pose, hoping to
slow my fall.  My weight defeated that tactic.  As I grew closer to the
ground, I saw Mea and Zarth, holding hands, lit up by the glow of
culminating magicka.  They pointed at me and suddenly my fall slowed.  I
felt as if a giant hand slammed me upwards then caught me.  I floated
slowly to the ground.

As soon as my feet touched the earth, the spell expired and I fell to the
ground, exhausted.  I clawed my way feebly to Catris, who was in a
similiar state.  I felt a cloak draped over me and gentle hands carry me
into the inn.  I felt Catris' warm body next to mine, but it barely
registered as I fell into a deep sleep.............

~Lord Jemalas Tamislane of Thornwood, Ruler of Kalisis
JDavis109@juno.com

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