Subj: DS:Legends 4
Date: 2/14/02 5:15:18 PM Central Standard Time
From: Aesgaard

Five months later, Isaac's wife Grace (lara parker) arrived from England on a ship at the Collinsport docks. Their teenage son August (david henesy) and her sister Clara (nancy barrett) was with her. Between the other passengers and cargo being unlaoded, she looked up as over a hundred men felled trees to create the settlement. So far, it consisted solely of odd shaped cabins and sheds, some of them attached to trees. Make-shift huts dotted the muddy road heading up the hill from the docks as wagons covered in mud carried gold fixtures and furnishings deep to a mansion being built far in the distance. Immigrants traveling overland and by sea were met by other immigrants as they sought work and homes. New structures of wood and stone and brick were being built around wood skeletons as children ran loose everywhere. Some of them cavorted in the mud and even worked as laborers as Grace sighed at the spectacle. Isaac emerged from the confusion.

"You've been busy." she remarked.

"Welcome to Collinsport !" He welcomed with a wave of his hand. "A town soon to be greater and grander than anything seen before, and wait till you see the new Collinwood. I patterned it after our home in England from the pillars out front to the number of bricks in the cellar and what a perfect site not far from Widow's Hill."

"Widow's Hill ?" Grace asked.

"The wife of a sailor jumped last week after his ship was lost at sea." Isaac revealed. "It will be the last tragedy ever. And August, my beloved son, are you ready for a incredible adventure ?"

"Eager, father." The boy stood proud in the presence of his father. "Seen any Indians yet ?"

"Aren't speaking to me ?" Clara grinned at her sister's husband.

"Beautiful Clara," Isaac added as he kissed her hand."And how was the voyage?"

"Horrible." She was frankly honest. "The sea tossed us like a child's toy.

Thought it'd never end." She gradually wandered away as Isaac forced a grin and turned to Grace and his son. As the discussion turned to events in England, she had broke away as she noticed an extra shape in the wagon the men had loaded with her belongings. A small shape of a person crawled under the tarp covering the baggage as it hovered over and poked through the bags. She whipped back the cover and discovered a young girl (sharon smythe) with dirty blonde hair and big blue eyes.

"You horrible gutter snipe !!" She screamed. "Stealing all my pretty things!!!"

"I am Angelique Miranda DuVal," the three foot high girl jumped out and looked back. "And I am still a better person than you !" She stuck out her tongue and lifted her long skirt to her muddy barefeet as she ran loose down the hill.

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