Subj: Dare Story (Chapter 9)
Date: 8/25/01 3:57:39 PM Central Daylight Time
From: Liz the Lucky

Suddenly, the door burst open, flying across the room. Elaine entered, with Aristede's ear, and the rest of Aristede, in tow.

"Stop messin' with mah mahtals!" she ordered, storming up to Nicholas.

Nicholas looked at the small figure before him. She certainly didn't look harmful. "And why should I?"

For an answer, Elaine slapped him, sending the warlock over to meet the door. "Next question?" she asked, licked the blood from her nails.

Pulling himself up into a sitting position, Nicholas began chanting under his breath.

The chanting stopped when a knife sprouted between his legs.

"Next one lands two inches highah," Elaine warned.

The warlock's face turned ash-white and he vanished.

"It's funnay," Elaine commented as she retrieved her knife. "Threaten a man's life, an' he'll go tah his grave without battin' an eye. Threaten _that_, an' he tahns intah a snifflin' babay."

"Perhaps," Angelique said, entering the room. "But you still have _me_ to deal with."

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