Alicia 3

The Never Ending Quest - Episode 6962

It has been an....interesting week. That is, in the Chinese sense of the phrase.

It was....strange to say the least.

Strange, wonderful, and frightening.

Here, let me start from the beginning....so as to better able to convey what I'm trying to tell you.


"I'm not alone," I whisper to myself as I awaken, surprised to feel silken sheets covers me. They are so soft, that I pause for a moment to savor it.

Having spent the last two years on the damnable Isle of Moreau made me forget how luxurious the feel of silk was.

Yes, it would...wouldn't it, a voice says within my head. It sounds like me....but it's not me. It's....like a near double.

I turn and look up to see my mirror image looking down upon me, smiling a sad smile.

I'm glad you've awake, sister. the image says, and the oddest thing is....I know she's sincere....and then some. So....how is the other Leaping Stream feeling?

Upon hearing that word, it strikes a reasonant chord within my being, and I'm left smiling.

"A bit....dazed by all this," I manage to finally say, blinking before asking a really non-intelligent question. "What happened?"

"My Fred mistook you for me when he saw you," the other Alicia says, absentmindedly stroking her own tail.

I...do have a habit of doing that a lot of late, I note to myself, and notice the smile upon my twin's face grow just a fraction larger before continuing.

Somehow, she and I can hear each other's thoughts with a bit of effort.

"All that is true," the other Alicia agrees. "It comes from sharing the same Truename....a key to your spirit and heart as it were. Wonderful if your love knows it, for it deepens the emotional bond to no ends....and terrible if your enemy knows it...because they can hurt you terribly with it!"

So don't tell just anyone, eh? I quip mentally to my sister, who laughs and nods in agreement. The sensation of her laughter is wonderful, and I have to wonder....

"Where do I come in with this Truename business," I ask, puzzled.

"Something less than a lover to me.....and more than a sister," Alicia D'Honaire says. "Do you understand?"

I blink when it actually DOES make sense. Don't ask me to explain it, but it made perfect sense to me.

Soon, I'm dressed (!) in a simple loin cloth and given several silver and gold braclets and anklets to wear....along with a set of black feather head dress that was popular back on the old Isle. I look into the mirror, and....find this outfit disturbingly.....right!

My sisterexplains the basics of this world I've found myself in, and even though my heart believes her....my mind is having trouble grasping it all.

"It's a bit much to take in," my sister smiles in understanding. "But being who you are...if it's vanity on my part....you'll be able to take it in...in a moment. I know that I could....."

It takes a bit longer than that, but I finally get the "lay of the land" as my sister puts it (odd turn of the phrase....but it works).

God has blessed me with kits....and a somebody to love and that loves me.

That's the only thing that I can attribute all this to, even with the explanations of the slipgate system collapsing and draggin forth so many other.....Fred, Astras, and others to this world.

There was no real reason why I was brought here....along with the thirty other....manimals....that had accompanied me after we broke from those savages who had murdered my Carradene in cold blood. My Carradene may have been a son of a brown haired bitch....a coward and quisling. But for the love of God, lynching him wasn't what I wanted to happen to the Son of a bitch!

I'd seen the look in Caradene's son, and saw a look of loss and anger that will haunt me for the rest of my days. While I may have hated that old wolf, here was a young wolf who'd loved Carradene as only a son could love his father. And....he couldn't breake through the crowd of the lynch mob.....

He'd gone off searing vengence, and....crying....

Now he's here, and he's....changed. yes, it's due in part that he's found a father in this world's version of his sire (and if I may be so bold....a far better man than the boy's original father). He even now has a SECOND father in the other newcomer, Carradene 2. Lord help me, he even has forgiven me for things I'd said against his wolf clan, him, and his father!

He realizes that his real fatherhad been something less than a....good man, and saw now that I was right. He just wished that he was still alive....so....

So his son could try to save his father from himself.

.....

That, with my new sense of empathy, moved me to tears. I cried for a half hour before I could regain my composer.

However, all this was childplay for me meeting....the man and dragon I had betrayed in my bigotry.

  1. All this hitting me in ONE EVENING, and I now am looking up at Dragon fred...the sire of my kits within me...

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