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Subject: He looks about and figures this a fine place to stay for a time.

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Malcon and Night Ablaze

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Date Posted: 16:31:41 04/27/01 Fri

The boy walks up and sets down his pack. He takes out a fold of blue velvet cloth and some silver thread, something he took from a traveler the gryphons killed. He begins to sew, one of the few things he remembers about human life. When he is finished it is a cloak with a gryphon on the back. A little sloppy, but not bad for he had to sew his cloth. He slips on the cloak which comes down around his ankles. He then sets about trying to make something like the tent he has seen other humans use. He takes to sticks and a hunting knife, another item from a dead traveler, and whittles points on both ends. He walks to a small hill well above the river. Sticking one end of the sticks in the ground the takes out one of his extra deer skins and ties it on the points with skin strips. He weighs down the corners with rocks and stands back to admire his first shelter. It was shabby, but stable and it would keep the weather and the cold off him for a while. He tosses in his pack and go climbs a tree to reach a sweet fruit. He feeds a piece of rabbit meat to Blaze then sets out to gather fire wood. He gathers a bunch of big logs and rolls one a few feet from his door. Building a stone circle around it and scraping grass off the ground around it. He thinks it looks like a camp fire spot and calls his gryphon cub over. He points and twitters to the cub and it spits a few sparks onto the log. It is enouf to get a fire going. He smiles. He had a feeling the baby would be a fire gryphon like its mother. "Blaze," he calls in a sing-song voice. "My Blaze started a blaze." He crawls into his tent with Blaze and spreads the other deer skin out for them to sleep on. He falls into a light doze as he was taught to always be alert in the wild. He peeps out the door every once in a while to see if his fire is still going.

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He slips out of the tent and starts to take it down.	Malcon and Night Ablaze	18:18:37 04/27/01 Fri