title: getting on with it
Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2000 13:53:52 -0500
author: Teri

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And then there was a brilliant flash of light, a vague disorientated feeling
in the pit of their stomachs, a slight bending of imagery as the forest slid
away from them and into the light.

The tired party, weapons still drawn and muscles still tensed in flight and
battle, found themselves stepping onto a plush carpet of grass. The ground
was a verdant green dappled by the mid-morning sunlight.  They were farther
east than they had been a moment before, the sun higher in its morning
climb.

"What just happened?" Teri whispered to Stana, uncurling herself and arching
her neck to look over the other girl's shoulder.

"I have no idea," she replied warily, not as quick to let her guard down.

Teri flicked annoyed eyes at the back of the woman's head. "Relax, it's safe
here. Can't you feel it?" Indeed, the patch of green was vacant save for the
small band, and the peaceful chirrup of birds came from the leafy curtain
above.

"We won't be alone for long," Elainas said, beginning hastily to arrange her
rumpled attire. "Put your weapons away, and let me do the talking," she
said, watching the edges of the green for signs of movement.

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"The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The
second is to look things in the face and know them
for what they are." -Marcus Aurelius

Teri Champ
Vassar College, Box 1763
Poughkeepsie, New York 12604-1763
x3089

http://vsa.vassar.edu/~m4m

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