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(M) Unexpected Encounters of the Knights (IC)
#1GodlyD&D 2023-07-08 01:27:37
The Code required ten knights for the station to guard the prominence at the strait, and a fort with a tower was built there. The Killiput, the enemy on the far shore across from there, would use this part of the land that was the closest for a threatening approach, even though, from what was known from many accounts, there were monsters in the deep around there, that could attack vessels arbitrarily at any time.
Alastair Hylton was next to chief of the knights stationed here. He was in charge of assigning the watches and rearranging them in cases of special need. Yet he still had to take the longest watch. It could not be skipped. Anything could happen at any time.
And after a few watches after all had been stationed there, something did happen!
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Valeria Segrave hurried down the dirt path eager to arrive at her favorite spot. Just a few more steps and there it was. She finally stud in a beautiful meadow that was filled with yellow and white wild flowers as far as her eyes could see them. As Valeria stud there she drew in a deep breath, relishing the sweet scent of the flowers around her. Since this was one of her favorite places to come she had grown to love it because she knew she could get away anytime she wanted to just think and enjoy the day and this just happened to be that that kind of day for her. Today the sun was high up in the sky when she got there for it was a nice spring day to be out in the meadow. Valeria planned to enjoy each moment she could spend here.
After a while of walking she soon came up to an apple tree. Seeing it was giving a little bit of shade she decides to stop and rest. “This looks like the perfect place for me to sit and play my flute.” she murmured. As Valeria took a seat under the tree she then pulled out her flute that she had been carrying in a canvas tote. She then slowly raised it to her lips and started to play a song her father use to sing to her when she was young child. But now that she had memorized it she loved to play it over and over when she was alone here in the meadow. After playing it a few times she put her flute back into the canvas tote. Then looking around to see if anyone was there watching her she then stood up and started to walk through the meadow again.
As Valeria walked along she soon stopped to pick a few flowers. Picking them reminded her of the times she had picked them for her mother. She missed those days since she had to leave home on the night of her twenty six birthday after a wicked wizard cast a spell on her and turned her into a mermaid, because she refused to stop singing when he told her to and he wanted her to come with him so he could take her lovely voice away from her, but of course she refused that. So to this day she has learned to live in the water as a mermaid. After the wizard cast the spell on her he told her as long as she returns to the water after dark each night she would be able to keep her legs. But if she forgets to return to the water after dark she would then lose her legs and have to live the rest of her life in the water with fins. Valeria was so glad that she was able to spend time out of the water during the day especially in the meadow.
As the sun started to set Valeria had already walked back to the apple tree she had been at earlier. She knew it was probably about time to be heading back to the water but she wanted to watch the sun set first. After she leaned up against the tree she watched the sky change colors first it was a bright pink with some red then it soon started to turn orange. She loved seeing how all the colors soon mix together as the sun got lower in the sky. Then as she was about to turn and start to walk again she looked up and saw someone standing in distances watching her. But she could not really make out who it was at the time. As she slowly walked closer to the path she soon saw it was a man. Could it possibly be the wicked wizard that cast the spell on her? No it couldn’t be him, for she had not seen him since the night of her birthday. But as she got closer to him she soon saw it was him. As she grabbed her canvas tote and dress in her hands she started to run but she could not get far enough ahead of him before he grabbed her by the arms and held her up against him. As she screamed out and tried to pull away from him. He just held her even tighter. When she finally stopped screaming he then started to talk to her. “Ah, Valeria Segrave we meet again. Have you changed your mind about what I asked of you to do?” Valeria closed her eyes and took a deep breath in, but when she opened them again all she could do was shake her head at the wizard for she was too scared to answer him. As the wizard started to shake Valeria hard he said. “Answer me now girl or I will cast another spell on you and you will be wishing you had answered me.” As Valeria was about to say something the wizard started to raised his hand in the air but stopped when she screamed out. “Oh please sir don’t hurt me, for all I was doing was trying to make my way back to the water after spending the day in the meadow.”When she was finally able to say that she then lowered her head to look to the ground. Then hearing the wizard started to laugh at her answer he then said. “Ah, I see. Well you better not have been singing while you were there. For if I had caught you doing that I would have taken your voice away from you for sure.” Valeria’s eyes grow wide when she heard him say those words. “Oh please sir just let me go now for I was not singing in the meadow today but just playing my flute.” As she said that he then grabbed the canvas tote and pulled it off of her. As he held it up in the air he started to saysome funny words that Valeria had never heard him say before.“WING WONG TA NA BO.” Which meaning: Make this tote disappear now. When he said these words the canvas tote then disappeared. Valeria then screamed out saying. “Please not my canvas tote.” As she said that the wizard let go off her and pushed her to the ground and as he did that he also disappeared.
Valeria lay there on the ground for a few minutes, then slowly sitting up she looked around to see if the wizard was still there. When seeing he was not there she cried out when seeing it was almost dark. She then jumped upand started to gather her dress in her hands and then she took off running as fast as she could to get back to the water. When she finally got to the water she quickly jumped in and when her feet touched the water herlegs started to disappear and her fins reappear again. As she started to swim in the cool water little did Valeria know that someone was standing there watching her. But it was not the wicked wizard this time but someone else she had never met before.
Alastair had gone through a significantly longer watch, as others could not accommodate a gap in watch duty. When he had another knight finally come to watch duty to replace him, he was rather tired, but wanted air, and importantly to him, remove the foot coffins to let his feet breath. After a bite of bread with nut spread he liked on it, and some water, he went out as close of that day came and the sun was sinking. The feeling of cool grass on his feet was pleasing to him just as the cool air on his face was.
It was shortly after that he heard something, like someone far off shouting something, but Alastair could not be sure. But he wandered beyond the clumps of trees growing in spots along the way in the direction of what he seemed to hear. His feet were strong and he knew they could handle anything wherever he would go.
Just as he thought he saw a figure some way further surrounded by more trees and growth near that one inlet from the sea, the apparent figure vanished. It was a strange thing to Alastair, he felt pretty sure someone had been there. And hadn't he heard someone? He wandered further toward where some figure seemed to have been seen. Then he finally saw someone. It was someone right at the shore. Not someone like the figure he thought he had seen. Someone with clothing in hand hurried into the water, and suddenly dropped lower unto it. Just then that one turned, and looked toward him. Then that one he was just seeing then dropped fully in the water. And did not come right back up! Was it someone trying to die by drowning?? He hurried over, worried he might not make it to save someone who would drown, even from giving up on life. When he got there, with the light remaining while the sun had been down already, he saw no evidence there had been someone there! What was going on? He looked still frantically.
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#2DreamDragon101 2023-07-15 17:56:53
It felt good to Valeria to be back in the water after a long day in the hot meadow. But when Valeria lay there in the water all the memories of the day started to run through her head. From the first step she took into the meadow, and when she rested under the tree to play her flute, and then to pick wild flowers. But the memory that what she could not get out of her head was the wicked Wizards words to her. " would he truly take my voice away from me if he ever get caught me singing?" She whispered to herself. But she could not believe he had taken her flute away from her. For she really enjoyed playing it and she knew she would miss doing it now that it was gone. As Valeria swim around for a little bit longer she thought about other things she missed. Then as she finished swimming she made her way over to some rocks that lay in the water, she then swam up onto them and laying there in the coolness of the night. As she lay there she watched the full moon rise high in the sky. She smiled as she saw the reflection of it in the water and it it reminded her of the time her father and her first slipped out under the stars one full night when she was a small child. Now that she lived out under them all the time it made her long to be at home with her family again and she knew one day maybe that would happen. But right now she was tired and wanted to go to sleep. Not long after that she did finally fall asleep and stayed asleep the rest of the night.
Early the next morning just before the sun was to come up Valeria woke up. Then sitting up on the Rock she yawned and stretched as she looked around then after a little bit she dive into the water and swam over to a little covering in the rocks. This was where she kept her belongings at. When she reached the rock she started to look for her hair brush when finding it she then swam back over to the Rocks where she was before. When she got to the Rock she jumped up on it and started to brush her wet hair out. As she did this she started to hum her favorite song to herself and then she soon started to sing it. " Early one morning just as the sun was rising I heard a young maid sing in the valley below." But this was singing that would quiet a crying baby and withdraw a crowd of people to listen. For Valeria truly had a beautiful voice and she was not afraid to let people hear her singing. As she continued to sing she started to braid her hair and then putting it up in a bun. But she stopped singing as she put the last clip into her hair before she saw something moving near the trees off in the distance.
Valeria sat there on the rocks for a few more minutes just staring out at whatever it was in the trees. As she sat there she built up enough courage to leave the rocks, for she knew if she stayed on the Rocks she would never know what it was at near the trees. Then turning around she then dived into the water and started to swim up to the shoreline. When getting there she rolled out of the water and up onto the sand and as soon as her tail left the water the sun started slowly drying her tail up and it disappeared and her leg started to form in place of her tail. Once her legs appeared Valeria men stood up and turning to look back at the trees, her eyes then went right back to the trees where she had seen the thing earlier. Then slowly walking towards the trees her eyes searched, she felt pretty sure something had been there watching her and she was not going to give up until she saw what it was. As she walked up to the place where she had thought she had seen something earlier she called out. " Hello is there anyone here?" She said as she listened carefully. Then she jumped when she thought she heard a branch snap nearby her. Then calling out again. " Hello!" She hoped if there was anyone there that they would answer her and come out from hiding from her. As she stood there she leaned up against a tree and waited.
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#3GodlyD&D 2023-07-22 01:25:20
Alastair stood over where the water touched the shore, in this inlet. It was not so deep, even in the twilight as it dimmed he could make out the bottom some way from the shore. But no body lay there at the bottom, which there should be if that person had drowned that quickly. But where did that one go, then? And why would someone, right after looking at him, go into the water, and never come up again? Was he losing his mind? Wasn't someone really there?
It was starting to get dark, so he wasn't going to solve this, let alone save someone, who couldn't be found. He despaired of that, and turning to go he walked then the way to the towered fort with his very troubled mind, as it grew darker, and the stars stood out distinctly.
Others in the fort were around the table in the dining area. Alastair sat down, and stared at the table in silence. This was not what the others were accustomed to seeing from Alastair, who often spoke with an air of authority. Gerargon, next in charge to Alastair, asked him what was going on.
Alastair said, "I might be losing my mind. I was out there, not far from the inlet, after my shift. I heard something, maybe like a very distant call. I went that way where I thought I heard it. I saw a figure some distance away after I had gone in that direction, and then it just vanished just as I noticed it. I went near to where I had seen it, and when I was right about there, where I was nearer to the inlet, I saw another figure just then stepping from the shore into the water. That one looked at me, and then dropped into the water. I ran over because it looked like that one would not come up again. I was right there and it looked like no one was there."
Gerargon said, "There are monsters, and supernatural beings, that can appear and disappear. So it would not just be human people you would see, if that happens."
Terrell said, "I heard merman and mermaids dwell in the sea, and they might come into the inlet, any of them might be seen."
Dodger said, "But there are great seamonsters out there! Merman and mermaids could not dwell among them!"
Eriold said, "I learned from my family the merman folk are immortals, they cannot just be killed. They will regenerate, and if seriously hurt they vanish from there to another place safe for them in another realm."
There was more discussion of what had possibly been out there. Alastair said he would need to be excused from his shift the next day, others were then assigned times they would cover for the watch.
The next day, early, Alastair returned to where he had seen those things. And he noticed something was happening.
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#4DreamDragon101 2023-07-25 11:29:19
As Valeria leaned against the tree she started to think about her childhood days when she would sit on her father's knees listen to him tell her stories about princesses. He would tell her she was his little princess and one day she would fall in love and marry a handsome prince of her own. This made her laugh when he told her this, but if he was to tell her this today she probably would not laugh for she knew no prince would want a girl like her that had to live outside in the water all the time. Oh how she longed to be a normal girl and not have this spell cast on her, for she was not one bit happy with the way she was now.
Valeria's thoughts were then interrupted when two brown squirrels ran down the path and past her as they chased each other up a tree. She laughed as she watched them. "Oh those silly little squirrels, what fun they are having with each other. How I wish I could be having fun just like them." she said out loud with a little sigh as she looked to the ground. As she looks down her eyes grow wide when she sees a small bush of wild blackberries at her feet. Then kneeling down to the bush she picks a few and starts to eat them, when she finishes picking all she could eat she then stood up and starts to look around.
Seeing the sun was just now coming up she knew it was probably time to go for her morning walk before it got to hot. But where would she walk today? She had been in the meadow the other day and the day before that she had walked the shorelines. Today she wanted to go somewhere she had never been before. Now she knew about this path that took you deep into the woods but she had never been on it before should she go there and see where it took her? Yes she would do just that today.
After walking for a little bit Valeria started to sing, but not her favorite song this time, but a little ton her uncle had taught her a long time ago. This is how it went: "As I was walking down the street, down the street, down the street, A little friend I chanced to meet, Heigh-o, Heigh-o, Heigh-o. As I was walking down the street, down the street, down the street, A fairy piper I chanced to meet. Heigh-o, Heigh-o, Heigh-o. As I was walking#8230;.." But as she was about to sing the last verse of the song she stopped for she had come to a dead-end in the path. Where was she to go now? Then as Valeria was about to turn around she sees another path off to the right in the trees some. Then biting her bottom lip she slowly starts to walk into the woods. Not sure where this path was going to take her at so she then started to look all around her.
Then after walking a little bit down into the woods the path started to get wider in front of her and the trees got farther apart, she then come to an opening and as she stepped out into the opening her hand goes to her mouth, for there stud out in the front of her was a big fort with a tower on it. Now Valeria had never seen one before and knew little about one. So she studied it closely for a few minutes. Then remembering that her uncle use to be a knight and had worked at a fort and now her own bother Daniel had gone off and was now becoming a knight. Valeria wondered if this was the fort he was at and if so was it the one her uncle had told her about. Then a thought came into her mind. Should she go and try and find her brother, for it had been a long time since she had seen her brother and she missed him dearly.
Then thinking about it for a minute she shakes her head. No maybe she should wait and come back another day, now that she knew where it was at. But she did want to get a little closer to it for she wanted to take it all in. After moving a little bit closer to the fort she then stands there behind a big oak tree watching. Then as she stands there she sees men leave the fort. Valeria then starts to wonder what goes on in a big fort like that, for her uncle never really told her much about that. As the sun rose high in the sky Valeria stated to get hot and deciding it was probably time to start head back into the woods. But as she started to walk back to the woods all of a sudden she sees a big grizzly bear standing in the path in front of her.
#1GodlyD&D 2023-07-08 01:27:37
The Code required ten knights for the station to guard the prominence at the strait, and a fort with a tower was built there. The Killiput, the enemy on the far shore across from there, would use this part of the land that was the closest for a threatening approach, even though, from what was known from many accounts, there were monsters in the deep around there, that could attack vessels arbitrarily at any time.
Alastair Hylton was next to chief of the knights stationed here. He was in charge of assigning the watches and rearranging them in cases of special need. Yet he still had to take the longest watch. It could not be skipped. Anything could happen at any time.
And after a few watches after all had been stationed there, something did happen!
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Valeria Segrave hurried down the dirt path eager to arrive at her favorite spot. Just a few more steps and there it was. She finally stud in a beautiful meadow that was filled with yellow and white wild flowers as far as her eyes could see them. As Valeria stud there she drew in a deep breath, relishing the sweet scent of the flowers around her. Since this was one of her favorite places to come she had grown to love it because she knew she could get away anytime she wanted to just think and enjoy the day and this just happened to be that that kind of day for her. Today the sun was high up in the sky when she got there for it was a nice spring day to be out in the meadow. Valeria planned to enjoy each moment she could spend here.
After a while of walking she soon came up to an apple tree. Seeing it was giving a little bit of shade she decides to stop and rest. “This looks like the perfect place for me to sit and play my flute.” she murmured. As Valeria took a seat under the tree she then pulled out her flute that she had been carrying in a canvas tote. She then slowly raised it to her lips and started to play a song her father use to sing to her when she was young child. But now that she had memorized it she loved to play it over and over when she was alone here in the meadow. After playing it a few times she put her flute back into the canvas tote. Then looking around to see if anyone was there watching her she then stood up and started to walk through the meadow again.
As Valeria walked along she soon stopped to pick a few flowers. Picking them reminded her of the times she had picked them for her mother. She missed those days since she had to leave home on the night of her twenty six birthday after a wicked wizard cast a spell on her and turned her into a mermaid, because she refused to stop singing when he told her to and he wanted her to come with him so he could take her lovely voice away from her, but of course she refused that. So to this day she has learned to live in the water as a mermaid. After the wizard cast the spell on her he told her as long as she returns to the water after dark each night she would be able to keep her legs. But if she forgets to return to the water after dark she would then lose her legs and have to live the rest of her life in the water with fins. Valeria was so glad that she was able to spend time out of the water during the day especially in the meadow.
As the sun started to set Valeria had already walked back to the apple tree she had been at earlier. She knew it was probably about time to be heading back to the water but she wanted to watch the sun set first. After she leaned up against the tree she watched the sky change colors first it was a bright pink with some red then it soon started to turn orange. She loved seeing how all the colors soon mix together as the sun got lower in the sky. Then as she was about to turn and start to walk again she looked up and saw someone standing in distances watching her. But she could not really make out who it was at the time. As she slowly walked closer to the path she soon saw it was a man. Could it possibly be the wicked wizard that cast the spell on her? No it couldn’t be him, for she had not seen him since the night of her birthday. But as she got closer to him she soon saw it was him. As she grabbed her canvas tote and dress in her hands she started to run but she could not get far enough ahead of him before he grabbed her by the arms and held her up against him. As she screamed out and tried to pull away from him. He just held her even tighter. When she finally stopped screaming he then started to talk to her. “Ah, Valeria Segrave we meet again. Have you changed your mind about what I asked of you to do?” Valeria closed her eyes and took a deep breath in, but when she opened them again all she could do was shake her head at the wizard for she was too scared to answer him. As the wizard started to shake Valeria hard he said. “Answer me now girl or I will cast another spell on you and you will be wishing you had answered me.” As Valeria was about to say something the wizard started to raised his hand in the air but stopped when she screamed out. “Oh please sir don’t hurt me, for all I was doing was trying to make my way back to the water after spending the day in the meadow.”When she was finally able to say that she then lowered her head to look to the ground. Then hearing the wizard started to laugh at her answer he then said. “Ah, I see. Well you better not have been singing while you were there. For if I had caught you doing that I would have taken your voice away from you for sure.” Valeria’s eyes grow wide when she heard him say those words. “Oh please sir just let me go now for I was not singing in the meadow today but just playing my flute.” As she said that he then grabbed the canvas tote and pulled it off of her. As he held it up in the air he started to saysome funny words that Valeria had never heard him say before.“WING WONG TA NA BO.” Which meaning: Make this tote disappear now. When he said these words the canvas tote then disappeared. Valeria then screamed out saying. “Please not my canvas tote.” As she said that the wizard let go off her and pushed her to the ground and as he did that he also disappeared.
Valeria lay there on the ground for a few minutes, then slowly sitting up she looked around to see if the wizard was still there. When seeing he was not there she cried out when seeing it was almost dark. She then jumped upand started to gather her dress in her hands and then she took off running as fast as she could to get back to the water. When she finally got to the water she quickly jumped in and when her feet touched the water herlegs started to disappear and her fins reappear again. As she started to swim in the cool water little did Valeria know that someone was standing there watching her. But it was not the wicked wizard this time but someone else she had never met before.
Alastair had gone through a significantly longer watch, as others could not accommodate a gap in watch duty. When he had another knight finally come to watch duty to replace him, he was rather tired, but wanted air, and importantly to him, remove the foot coffins to let his feet breath. After a bite of bread with nut spread he liked on it, and some water, he went out as close of that day came and the sun was sinking. The feeling of cool grass on his feet was pleasing to him just as the cool air on his face was.
It was shortly after that he heard something, like someone far off shouting something, but Alastair could not be sure. But he wandered beyond the clumps of trees growing in spots along the way in the direction of what he seemed to hear. His feet were strong and he knew they could handle anything wherever he would go.
Just as he thought he saw a figure some way further surrounded by more trees and growth near that one inlet from the sea, the apparent figure vanished. It was a strange thing to Alastair, he felt pretty sure someone had been there. And hadn't he heard someone? He wandered further toward where some figure seemed to have been seen. Then he finally saw someone. It was someone right at the shore. Not someone like the figure he thought he had seen. Someone with clothing in hand hurried into the water, and suddenly dropped lower unto it. Just then that one turned, and looked toward him. Then that one he was just seeing then dropped fully in the water. And did not come right back up! Was it someone trying to die by drowning?? He hurried over, worried he might not make it to save someone who would drown, even from giving up on life. When he got there, with the light remaining while the sun had been down already, he saw no evidence there had been someone there! What was going on? He looked still frantically.
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#2DreamDragon101 2023-07-15 17:56:53
It felt good to Valeria to be back in the water after a long day in the hot meadow. But when Valeria lay there in the water all the memories of the day started to run through her head. From the first step she took into the meadow, and when she rested under the tree to play her flute, and then to pick wild flowers. But the memory that what she could not get out of her head was the wicked Wizards words to her. " would he truly take my voice away from me if he ever get caught me singing?" She whispered to herself. But she could not believe he had taken her flute away from her. For she really enjoyed playing it and she knew she would miss doing it now that it was gone. As Valeria swim around for a little bit longer she thought about other things she missed. Then as she finished swimming she made her way over to some rocks that lay in the water, she then swam up onto them and laying there in the coolness of the night. As she lay there she watched the full moon rise high in the sky. She smiled as she saw the reflection of it in the water and it it reminded her of the time her father and her first slipped out under the stars one full night when she was a small child. Now that she lived out under them all the time it made her long to be at home with her family again and she knew one day maybe that would happen. But right now she was tired and wanted to go to sleep. Not long after that she did finally fall asleep and stayed asleep the rest of the night.
Early the next morning just before the sun was to come up Valeria woke up. Then sitting up on the Rock she yawned and stretched as she looked around then after a little bit she dive into the water and swam over to a little covering in the rocks. This was where she kept her belongings at. When she reached the rock she started to look for her hair brush when finding it she then swam back over to the Rocks where she was before. When she got to the Rock she jumped up on it and started to brush her wet hair out. As she did this she started to hum her favorite song to herself and then she soon started to sing it. " Early one morning just as the sun was rising I heard a young maid sing in the valley below." But this was singing that would quiet a crying baby and withdraw a crowd of people to listen. For Valeria truly had a beautiful voice and she was not afraid to let people hear her singing. As she continued to sing she started to braid her hair and then putting it up in a bun. But she stopped singing as she put the last clip into her hair before she saw something moving near the trees off in the distance.
Valeria sat there on the rocks for a few more minutes just staring out at whatever it was in the trees. As she sat there she built up enough courage to leave the rocks, for she knew if she stayed on the Rocks she would never know what it was at near the trees. Then turning around she then dived into the water and started to swim up to the shoreline. When getting there she rolled out of the water and up onto the sand and as soon as her tail left the water the sun started slowly drying her tail up and it disappeared and her leg started to form in place of her tail. Once her legs appeared Valeria men stood up and turning to look back at the trees, her eyes then went right back to the trees where she had seen the thing earlier. Then slowly walking towards the trees her eyes searched, she felt pretty sure something had been there watching her and she was not going to give up until she saw what it was. As she walked up to the place where she had thought she had seen something earlier she called out. " Hello is there anyone here?" She said as she listened carefully. Then she jumped when she thought she heard a branch snap nearby her. Then calling out again. " Hello!" She hoped if there was anyone there that they would answer her and come out from hiding from her. As she stood there she leaned up against a tree and waited.
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#3GodlyD&D 2023-07-22 01:25:20
Alastair stood over where the water touched the shore, in this inlet. It was not so deep, even in the twilight as it dimmed he could make out the bottom some way from the shore. But no body lay there at the bottom, which there should be if that person had drowned that quickly. But where did that one go, then? And why would someone, right after looking at him, go into the water, and never come up again? Was he losing his mind? Wasn't someone really there?
It was starting to get dark, so he wasn't going to solve this, let alone save someone, who couldn't be found. He despaired of that, and turning to go he walked then the way to the towered fort with his very troubled mind, as it grew darker, and the stars stood out distinctly.
Others in the fort were around the table in the dining area. Alastair sat down, and stared at the table in silence. This was not what the others were accustomed to seeing from Alastair, who often spoke with an air of authority. Gerargon, next in charge to Alastair, asked him what was going on.
Alastair said, "I might be losing my mind. I was out there, not far from the inlet, after my shift. I heard something, maybe like a very distant call. I went that way where I thought I heard it. I saw a figure some distance away after I had gone in that direction, and then it just vanished just as I noticed it. I went near to where I had seen it, and when I was right about there, where I was nearer to the inlet, I saw another figure just then stepping from the shore into the water. That one looked at me, and then dropped into the water. I ran over because it looked like that one would not come up again. I was right there and it looked like no one was there."
Gerargon said, "There are monsters, and supernatural beings, that can appear and disappear. So it would not just be human people you would see, if that happens."
Terrell said, "I heard merman and mermaids dwell in the sea, and they might come into the inlet, any of them might be seen."
Dodger said, "But there are great seamonsters out there! Merman and mermaids could not dwell among them!"
Eriold said, "I learned from my family the merman folk are immortals, they cannot just be killed. They will regenerate, and if seriously hurt they vanish from there to another place safe for them in another realm."
There was more discussion of what had possibly been out there. Alastair said he would need to be excused from his shift the next day, others were then assigned times they would cover for the watch.
The next day, early, Alastair returned to where he had seen those things. And he noticed something was happening.
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#4DreamDragon101 2023-07-25 11:29:19
As Valeria leaned against the tree she started to think about her childhood days when she would sit on her father's knees listen to him tell her stories about princesses. He would tell her she was his little princess and one day she would fall in love and marry a handsome prince of her own. This made her laugh when he told her this, but if he was to tell her this today she probably would not laugh for she knew no prince would want a girl like her that had to live outside in the water all the time. Oh how she longed to be a normal girl and not have this spell cast on her, for she was not one bit happy with the way she was now.
Valeria's thoughts were then interrupted when two brown squirrels ran down the path and past her as they chased each other up a tree. She laughed as she watched them. "Oh those silly little squirrels, what fun they are having with each other. How I wish I could be having fun just like them." she said out loud with a little sigh as she looked to the ground. As she looks down her eyes grow wide when she sees a small bush of wild blackberries at her feet. Then kneeling down to the bush she picks a few and starts to eat them, when she finishes picking all she could eat she then stood up and starts to look around.
Seeing the sun was just now coming up she knew it was probably time to go for her morning walk before it got to hot. But where would she walk today? She had been in the meadow the other day and the day before that she had walked the shorelines. Today she wanted to go somewhere she had never been before. Now she knew about this path that took you deep into the woods but she had never been on it before should she go there and see where it took her? Yes she would do just that today.
After walking for a little bit Valeria started to sing, but not her favorite song this time, but a little ton her uncle had taught her a long time ago. This is how it went: "As I was walking down the street, down the street, down the street, A little friend I chanced to meet, Heigh-o, Heigh-o, Heigh-o. As I was walking down the street, down the street, down the street, A fairy piper I chanced to meet. Heigh-o, Heigh-o, Heigh-o. As I was walking#8230;.." But as she was about to sing the last verse of the song she stopped for she had come to a dead-end in the path. Where was she to go now? Then as Valeria was about to turn around she sees another path off to the right in the trees some. Then biting her bottom lip she slowly starts to walk into the woods. Not sure where this path was going to take her at so she then started to look all around her.
Then after walking a little bit down into the woods the path started to get wider in front of her and the trees got farther apart, she then come to an opening and as she stepped out into the opening her hand goes to her mouth, for there stud out in the front of her was a big fort with a tower on it. Now Valeria had never seen one before and knew little about one. So she studied it closely for a few minutes. Then remembering that her uncle use to be a knight and had worked at a fort and now her own bother Daniel had gone off and was now becoming a knight. Valeria wondered if this was the fort he was at and if so was it the one her uncle had told her about. Then a thought came into her mind. Should she go and try and find her brother, for it had been a long time since she had seen her brother and she missed him dearly.
Then thinking about it for a minute she shakes her head. No maybe she should wait and come back another day, now that she knew where it was at. But she did want to get a little closer to it for she wanted to take it all in. After moving a little bit closer to the fort she then stands there behind a big oak tree watching. Then as she stands there she sees men leave the fort. Valeria then starts to wonder what goes on in a big fort like that, for her uncle never really told her much about that. As the sun rose high in the sky Valeria stated to get hot and deciding it was probably time to start head back into the woods. But as she started to walk back to the woods all of a sudden she sees a big grizzly bear standing in the path in front of her.
