From: "Larry Lo" <llarry@infinet.net>  Save Address Block Sender
     Subject: A Time Alone (Flames)  [Part two]
     Date: Wed, 8 Jul 1998 22:52:16 -0700

     ::Shit badly hurt...::
     "ARUG."
     ::Only small party found us.  Damn!  That means the army is near.
     Kaika!  Only a hunch, but they must be there.::
     "Foochi"<whisle sound>
     "My horse, my friend.  I need your help now."  Slowly Wataru
     climbs on to his horse.  His injuries were bad, but he knew that
     this was going to be important.  "To Kaika, my friend, in the
     fastest speed, yet as silent and invisable as the wind."

     To Kaika, Wataru went.  He took the shortest route, one
     not of a nice broad but crocked road, but over hills and mountains,
     one route that is straight as an arrow.  When he was about ten
     miles with sight of Kaika he saw the beginning of the worst.
     The town was in flames.  The fires were as bright as the sun.
     Hiding his horse carefully, he crept closer to town.  Then he
     saw it--BODIES.  Bodies everywhere.  From the oldest
     gray-haired to the youngest infant, had been brutally and
     methodically slaughtered.  The sight was shocking.  The golden
     youth of Wataru was now an older slithering man.  "THOSE
     BASTARDS!"  Revenge was high in his mind but intelligence
     drew him back.  Going against an entire army was foolish.
     Creeping/crawling around the area, he caught sight of the
     army.  Horses, soldiers of various types, banners all bear
     the same symbol, two snakes twisted together.

     "Well there they are.  AUGH.  My wounds are getting bad.
       Better return to camp."

     -Wataru