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I woke early, lying still and listening to the birds singing their morning wakeup song. They sounded so carefree and cheerful until the screech of a hawk hunting it's morning fast silenced their whistling and chirping with the single scream of a predator.
"I wonder if that's what this Aganeth is? A predator or just a sick SOB? What exactly is his role in all of this?" I pondered silently. "He was in some way responsible for the death of Jolie's wife and should die for that if nothing else."
Just then I heard my smelly companions start to wake up. "Phew!" They had absolutely no manners with the morning smells and sounds they were making! Not at all bird like.
Odie walked over and touched me rather tentatively on the shoulder, "Wake up and cook us breakfast woman." His voice was full of false bravado and was shaking ever so slightly.
I glanced up at him and smiled ever so gently and just nodded. I almost chuckled at how relieved he looked.
After I cooked breakfest and just before handing them their plates, I surreptitiously added some charcoal I had scraped out of the fire earlier and mixed it into their food. Deciding that they might be suspicious if I was too sweet I shoved their plates at them and growled, "Hope you like it, you south ends of a north bound donkey."
I enjoyed my food tremendously, just thinking of the stomach cramps they'd have later today. After a lot of grumbling I did all the clean up while thay just sat on their respective arse's doing nothing.
Once I was done cleaning they suddenly got in a big rush to leave without giving me my 'turn' behind the bushes. After convincing them that they really didn't want to have to clean up after me they again tied the rope around my neck to let me go. After giving a disgusted look at them both when they tried to make go behind the same bush they did, I ambled over behind a big oak tree and some bushes and quickly pulled my knife out from under my overdress and carved my initials into the tree. [/color] [color:"yellow"]DQ OK [/color]
[color:"00cccc"]We travelled another half day and ended up at a cabin. It looked vaguely familiar like I'd been there before, but I knew I hadn't. It was a homely little place that looked like it had been abandoned for some time. Although you could see from the little bunches of flowers growing in assorted spots around it that a family had once lived and loved there. "How sad, just abandoned and waiting in hopes that a new family will give it life again."
When I started to climb down from the wagon, Enry grabbed the rope at my wrist and yanked me down into his arms. "Uh oh, here it comes. I really, really don't want to do this," I thought as I tensed myself to attack.
Just then, I saw a blurring in the air and suddenly there was an ancient looking troll standing there, dressed in exotic looking purple robes, lined with gold and carrying what was obviously a powerful wizards' staff.
Enry dropped me like a hot potato and started grovelling, "Master, we didn't expect you so soon. Look, look at the pretty we brought you." He reached down and yanked me up from the ground. "See Master ... she's just what you wanted."
The troll wizard turned his eyes on me and I felt a shiver go down my spine, "Ah DQueene, you may have just bitten off more than you can chew." I swallowed silently and started sending an "SOS" whatever the hell that was.[/color]
