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Date Posted: 10:10:36 09/28/02 Sat
Author: Tsuga/Tavie
Subject: Shivering...

Not from the piercing cold, but from the memory of a haunted past. As Tavie lands gracefully and Tsuga slides from th fuzzy purple neck to land upon the top of the frozen peak, she takes shallow breaths of the thin air, looking about her with eyes full of fear, and a cloudy grey as she surveyed that before her without seeing it, she saw only the visions flashing before her eyes. At what her rider saw, Tavie crooned anxiously.

Just as her mother's fist comes down upon her shoulder, a tall man, with striking rsemblance to suga, steps from the shadows as she huddles on the ground, wimpering and hurt, only just conscious. He faces the woman, his face dark and clouded. Tsuga's father struggles long and hard with her mother, but when the woman pulls a beltknife and digs it ruthlessly into his back, she rises, victoriou, from the fighter's crouch. She walked over to Tsuga and picked up the whimpering, frail little child, taking her to a green dragon. Tsuga is flown to Tundra island and dropped off, her mother's parting retort being: "You're no longer my problem, you little brat! Stay here and freeze, or starve!" And her mother is gone, just like that, her father is killed, and she is alone in the world, tottally and utterly alone. Y?ears pass and suga grows into a young woman who has been taken in by a wondering lumberjack, and she lived, but, when he is taken from her by pnemonia, she leaves the cozycabin and wanders, ending up on the Sands just before Tavie hatched. She shuddered voilently....

Tsuga is jolted fromher dream as Tavie mournfully curlsaround her, the hot purple body snuggling against her, offering warmth and comfort. {I had no idea.} Tsuga hung her head. I-I haven't thought of them in years. {Then why did you now?} I don't know. Something about what happened yesterday, with that woman, I came so close to losing my temper,then, how I treated Maliika last night....I-I fear I'm becoming HER. And the term is spat, like the name of a hated enemy, they both know to whom she referrs. {That man, the one she killed, he was your father?} Yes, and WAS is the key term. She never liked him, you know, eveyed him his Red. She was always looking for a way to hurt him, taking her hatred out on me, especially after discovering that was the best way to get under hisskin. Tsuga cackls evily, knowing there is noone to hear. He finnally lost it, and she killed him before my eyes. If he had just abandonedme as she did, he could still be alive. Tsuga's mental tone now held bitter rsentment. Her eyes were now clearer, but they were still grey-tinged, rather than their normal, sparkling blue. She snuggled into the warm under-belly of Tavie, feeling as though a weight had been lifted by havng someone who knew her exact feelings. "Thank your for bringing me here Tavie, it's just what I nedded to clear my head." Tavie rumbles, glad that Tsuga now seemed more like herself.

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Rises, her emotions under controll. -- Tsuga/Tavie, 15:38:55 09/28/02 Sat