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The Never Ending Quest - Episode 14110

"Mr. Jones I assume," Astra 13 chuckles, shaking her head.

The laugh wasn't mean, but rueful.

The scenery begins to fade, the dreamscape fading.

They all a rueful laugh, and then go quiet as Eric Jones squats down and looks his son in the eye (and resists the urge to bounce up and down to keep eye level as his son grows and shrinks from child to adult and back again).

"Son, I know a bit now why you drew away from me," the mechanic begins, not sure how to articulate what he's feeling, "Admittedly, I....only skimmed through it to hastily jump in here to .....help, but I know why now......."

One Eye gives of an articulate cry, finally giving over to his younger side's.....wisdom. They older and younger join together in rushing over to give a fierce hug to Eric.

The others smile at the happy sight.....

"If he's our father's father, does that make a human our grandfather?" Jenny wonders aloud, stroking Sammy Cat's head absently. She wasn't sure what to make of that..... Then again, she wasn't quiet sure how her father would take learning that not only was his long lost daughter back....but there were several different versions of herself back in a magical land called Xanth (who hadn't come only due to the fact that of some crises and such back on the homefront there...as it were).

The others then turn and look at the earnest wolf who'd come running in to help.

"Wasn't this the wolf you'd called to?" Hathar'ruil asks the elfin boy who was the same age as he, but had also helped bring him into the world, "Or rather....the dreamscape version of him?"

"Actually, it was the wolf that got attracted as I Sent out in delirium," One Eye said softly, "the human hunters who'd captured me had killed my original......wolf."

"None of our Forest Brothers came with us?" Jenny finally asks, broaching a soar subject indeed as the faithful wolf fades from existence.

Because the Wolfriders came about in part due to the mundane wolves that Timmain had....er....a relation with and given birth to the Wolfriders, the wolves that they chose as their mounts (who bonded with their wolves) were very much like brothers indeed. Very much like family.....

"Given the fact that we somehow survived while everything else is gone.....howl for them but be thankful that we are alive," Ti'mma says softly.

The other elves then do just that! Mournful and haunting, the elves (ex-Wolfriders and Wolfrider) howl in sorrow at the fading two moons in the sky.

"I wonder just how many more memories we'll go through here," Astra 13 whispers to her new sister, Astra 9.

Well, the answers to that question is two more from Solik'tril Jones (the name he finally took up to reflect his now united self). It was the one that his father, a human who'd save him not only eight years ago....but had also at least attempted to save him from the phantoms of his mind, had given him. This name he kept to honor his father.

Thus, he soon stands before the others in the dreamscape a young elfin boy with an opaque image of a Wolfrider known as One Eye.

Jenny is stunned and shocked by the images/scenes she's participated in.

One had been that of the day he'd learned of his daughter had gone missing. This had happened for Jenny only a few days ago but for her father....it was a long time ago (but was still a poignant memory). The heartbreak she saw on the image of her mothers face was almost too much for her to take!

The other one is that of her father's death. Oh, as before the others had stepped in to prevent the replay...but when Jenny had learned that her father had died......

"But Scott didn't...." she whispered.

Frankly, Scott hadn't any idea how to break the news so put it off until he figured out how to break the news easily to her....and had been taken away before he ever got a second chance.

Shaken, she reflected this entire business was strange indeed. Stranger than what she'd ever dreamed it being!

As for her brother, they also helped with him as he went through the same process of integrating his two halves. See, before they had entered into Solik'tril Jones' fray, they'd initiated into making Hathar'ruil whole as well. Thus, when the father's journey ends, so begins Hathar'ruil's journey.

It revolves around one and only one memory.

  1. There are other tragedies in this ex-Wolfrider's life, but for some reason this is the one thing that comes to the fore.....

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