Log Date: April 1994 Log Cast: Blackmorn, Clearsight, Silentrunner Log Intro: This scene happens right after Clearsight has had the old burn-scars on her face and shoulders healed by Mender, the Wolfrider healer living in the Sun Village. After that healing, however, there is a confrontation in the Garden of Shade and Sweet Water between Mender and the Underworld healer Shayilbey, over the aid of a stranger named TallWalker. Clearsight senses something in the argument, something about the Underworld healer, that scared her badly; with a concerned Blackmorn trying to comfort, she flees the scene... ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- You walk north, heading towards the Sun Folk's Guest Cottages. Guest Cottages(#671RA) A circle of small adobe cottages, plastered in soft pastel colors and decorated with symbols of peace and joy and each with a small planter of some green growing plant by the door. To obtain a home in the sun village, send +mail to Savah. You may select this place or any portion of the boundary path. Caves are also available in the adjacent Wolfrider encampment in the rocky hills. Contents: Sand Obvious exits: CourtYard(S) Blackmorn walks in from the Visitors' Courtyard to the South. Clearsight shivering, murmurs, "Loud... " Blackmorn turns and opens his arms to you. Clearsight presses up against you, shivering. Blackmorn closes his arms gently around you, bending his neck so that his head is nearer yours, still quiet. You locksend ** ** to Blackmorn. Blackmorn's brow furrows slightly. He sendwhispers ** You are safe, fledgling.. safe here..no need to fear...** Clearsight murmurs, "W-why didn't... she want Mender to heal him....?" Blackmorn shakes his head a little. "That we cannot know.." Clearsight looks up at you, her delicate face seemingly even more delicate, with her newly-healed skin. "Mender would not have h-harmed TallWalker! I felt that! But... " Blackmorn smiles lightly as you look up, not out of circumstance, but despite the circumstance. He brushes your cheek with his fingers."Perhaps, there are things the pale healer knows, that this Mender does not." Clearsight's skin beneath your touch is baby-soft, unmarred in its golden smoothness. "But I felt... she felt as if she would... hurt Mender, if he tried to help TallWalker! She felt so angry!" Blackmorn lifts an eyebrow slightly. "Something she wishes to remain unknown to him?" You say "I... I do not know...!" Blackmorn's eyes shadow. "This troubles you very much.. I.. wish that I knew answers to ease your mind, beloved.." Clearsight blinkblinks, eyes going huge, as she starts in your grasp. Blackmorn blinks at the start and he frowns. "Something..?" Clearsight looks up, seeking your gaze. "'B-beloved'... you said that... before... " Blackmorn nods slowly. "I did." Silentrunner walks in from the Visitors' Courtyard to the South. Silentrunner has arrived. QuietFang has arrived. Clearsight breathes, "I... remember now... I was so tired... " Her expression seems to melt as she looks up at you, eyes beginning to shimmer damply. Silentrunner quietly peeks in to see how you to are doing. Silentrunner hopes he hasn't interupted anything and sorries if he did... Clearsight looks up, seeming rather overwhelmed... if much less tired than she did last night. Blackmorn's gaze flicks up briefly to acknowledge, then back to Clearsight once again. You say "S-Silentrunner...." Blackmorn locksends ** You.. would rather I do not call you this? ** Clearsight abruptly snaps her gaze around to Blackmorn, crying huskily, "No...! I mean... I... " Silentrunner smiles and leaves a sack of fresh meat and water, "I'll let you two alone..." Silentrunner walks slowly back to the south, smiling shyly. Silentrunner re-enters the visitors' court from the cottage area. Silentrunner has left. QuietFang has left. Blackmorn's face is a mix of smile and confusion. Clearsight looks up again to you, seeming dazed, overcome.... You locksend ** ** to Blackmorn. Clearsight's gaze meets yours... Blackmorn's gaze does not waver. You locksend ** ** to Blackmorn. Blackmorn locksends ** ** Clearsight whispers, "Oh... dear one... brave wolf... " Blackmorn's arms tighten a little more around your back. You locksend ** ** to Blackmorn. Blackmorn locksends ** ** You locksend ** ** to Blackmorn. Clearsight, her gaze turned shyly wondering, reaches up to touch your face. Something ripples through her thoughts: timid amazement, for this feeling seems oddly familiar, this _knowing_ that for some reason she sees in your eyes.... Blackmorn locksends ** ** Clearsight's breath catches in her throat, and her eyes fix on you, as she stares at you as if for the first time in her life.... Blackmorn's eyes widen slightly. "Did.." he starts, and then trails off.. You locksend ** ** to Blackmorn. Clearsight stammers, "It... it was... you... " Blackmorn says "Me? I.. what was me...fledg.. Clear..." Blackmorn stumbles, searching for something to say, that will come out correctly. Clearsight, her form suddenly going limp in your grasp, still stares up at you huge-eyedly. She swallows hard, her mouth working soundlessly, and manages, "It... it was you all the time... " Blackmorn's eyes search your face, his hand visibly shaking as he brushes your hair back, and manages the faintest of smiles. "I.. suppose.. I..it was. Knew there was _something_.." Clearsight clings to you weakly, as her knees tremble under her. "I... I feel... " Blackmorn's gaze shifts quickly to the pillows, and then back. "Down.." He closes his eyes, and starts again. "Do you want to lie down?" Clearsight mumbles, "Di... dizzy... " Her eyes never leave you. Clearsight breathes again, huskily, "It... was you... in the dreams... " Blackmorn says "Dreams.. yes.. Perhaps.." You locksend ** ** to Blackmorn. You locksend ** ** to Blackmorn. Blackmorn locksends ** ** Clearsight's arms have somehow found their way around your neck, as she stares up at you with eyes gone bottomless... "You... you know... me... and... " Evidently having trouble catching her breath, the girl speaks with a barely audible whisper. Blackmorn says "And you know me...this is right." You locksend ** <_Faan_ gleams in her mind, starlight almost palpable enough to touch, yet, somehow, she is distanced from it even as she strives to comprehend.... > <_Verit_ like a hot amber fire shines, as well, dizzying her, focusing her thoughts on things she has never before considered.... > ** to Blackmorn. Blackmorn starts. "You.. you are dizzy.. will you.. a cottage.. rest?" Clearsight mumbles, her eyes still fastened on your face, taking in every detail from the curve of your eyebrows to the line of your jaw, "This... what... has... happened?" You locksend ** <_Need_, blazing in two colors at once, filling every corner of mind... > ** to Blackmorn. Blackmorn shakes his head wordlessly... and heads into a cottage... Clearsight hobbles along beside you, dazedly, still gazing at you in awe. Blackmorn slips between sending and talking, alternately. "Sleep now..." ** We will ..think...soon..** Clearsight frowns vaguely, uncertainly; but as you help her to the nearest pile of cushions, she sinks down as if her legs had turned to water. Blackmorn smiles vaguely, and sinks into his own pile of pillows, close to you, seeming to offer a place to rest against him, uncertainly. Clearsight without thinking burrows into your side, making a tiny yearning noise. Blackmorn wraps his arms gently around you, then draws you in close, fairly clinging to you. **Yes..** Clearsight tries to focus on a thought... should we not do....? But she is trembling, and her mind is whirling.... Clearsight mumbles, "Are... are we... alright...?" Blackmorn's fingers curl against your back lightly, brow creased and jaw set. ** We... will be .. right. Sleep now.. stay and sleep...** Clearsight again frowns uncertainly... but she trusts you, and the trusts bllazes brightly in her mind. Gradually, she drops into an uneasy slumber..... Blackmorn studies your features in slumber.. and forces himself to sleep, without dreaming. [To be continued....]