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Date Posted: 10:11:08 03/04/03 Tue
Author: Marius & Anaindi
Subject: Wait, wait, wait.

Two sets of footfalls can be heard outside the cave. One set is steady, unceasing in its rhthym and quiet as it draws patiently nearer. The other set sounds like the anxious shuffling of a dry leaf storm as it scuttles forward. This set's owner is seen first.

Hands on her hips, the thin shank of a girl eyes the remaining eggs and people with a muddy brown regard, her lips pursing for a moment before she gives a decisive nod and plunges forward into the cave, her movements almost those of a cavorting stork. "C'mon Marius! The more you wait the less eggs there'll be!" She calls back, her voice a strange resonating thing that seems to reach out and pluck her companion from the shadows as she herself moves deeper into the recesses of the lair.

Marius hovers at the entrance to the cave, his eyes darkening with the pleasure of the red mother dragon before him. He had read scrolls of course, scrolls and scrolls about this sort of thing. But the breathing, rippling, flame kissed hide erased the stale words etched into the scrolls and the next step the young man takes brings him into the wonder fully. Ignoring Ana, he moves closer, attempting to snag a glance at the eggs for himself amidst all the people. Failing at that for a moment, he settles quietly against the edge of the cave to wait, his mind snapping and humming to his outward nonchalant appearance.

Ana, however, cannot stay still. Her hands are in constant motion as they spar with one another, thumbs poking and prodding into the palms. Pacing a bit, she swings her head to glance at the people, her dishwater braid snapping across her thin shoulder with an audible slap. Waiting would KILL her, but she could try it. Glancing again at her brother, she heaves a sigh at his still quiet gaze. He was going into himself again. Oh, well.

Marius indeed seems to be visiting the halls of his own mind, his imagination taking over for him as he breathes in the air redolent with so many smells, fresh clawed earth, other people, dragon and egg. He would hold these in his mind for a long time to come. Sitting trance like against the wall, his half lidded eyes miss nothing as he watches his older sister amble back and forth.

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