From: scavanag@neumann.une.edu.au (Steven Cavanagh)
Newsgroups: alt.pub.dragons-inn
Subject: [HP] meets [T&R]: Two shall become one...
Date: 8 Nov 92 12:12:27 GMT


Posted on behalf of Helios Darkmane.


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Hayley Silvertree: Journey Chapter Two

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	Hayley groaned. She could feel her leg bleeding, sense it with her mind. A sharp rock had extended it's deadly embrace to her, and she had barely missed a fatal wound. Instead, her leg had a nice, long gash on it. Something moved by her head. She extended her mind, feeling the outline of the magpie familiar... Zakronius ! Where was the druid ?
	She reached out desperately, unable to directly sense him. She changed
 modes, seeking his mind rather than his body. There, under that sand pile. She dragged herself over, her injured leg hampering her every move, reminding her of its presence with biting pain. 
	She reached the pile and began digging as best she could, aiming for
 where she had sensed his mind. Her eyes, of course, were useless in this
 situation. She felt his face beneath her hands, cleared the sand away from it
 as best she could. His was scarcely breathing. 
	"No....come on, you got this far, don't die from a little fall..."
But she could do nothing. She was a psionic, her powers lay in her own mind, not in her hands. She could not heal him. If only.....
If only what ? Who ? Someone from her past, a vague cloud of recollection was
 wafting its way through her memory. 
	"My past....I don't know my past..."
	^Amnesia, dear Hayley...^
	"Who .... Who's that ?"
	Her mind reached out desperately, feeling for a presence for the voice
 that was in her mind, but at the same time was elsewhere...
	^Don't you remember me Hayley ? I thought you'd at least remember me...^
	The cloud in her mind coallesced, taking the form of a young woman, not dissimilar to herself...
	^It's me, Hayley, Hyala. Your sister.^
	"My sister ? But I don't have a.....wait....yes, yes I do ! I do have a sister ! I remeber ! And mother, father, our brother Geral ! I remember !"
	^I'm here to help...Do you remember the prophecy ?^
[ADMIN: Helios told it to Darvin a few postings back. If anyone missed it, mail me and I'll send you a copy.]
	"The one mother taught us ? Yes....why ?"
	^You are the child of hope, sweet Hayley. The druid is the man of nature, and I have found the men of night and day. They will seek you. But now, we
 must tend to the druid. He needs healing.^
	"But I'm no healer ! I don't know what to do !"
	^No need to panic, dear, you're a young woman now, not a child...open
 your mind to me, give me control...^
	Hayley did so, and saw her arms move without her own command, fingertips touching the injured druid, a radiance of warmth spreading throughout her body, flowing down her arm, and around the face of the wounded druid.
[ADMIN: For Hayley, "seeing" is similar to a bat's sonar, a radar sense not
 unlike the comic character Daredevil.]
	Zakronius' eyes flickered open...
	"How..where am I ? How did you do that ?" he said as he pulled himself
 up out of the sandpile.
	"My sister. Hyala, she did it through me."
	"You never told me you had a sister.."
	"I didn't remember until she came into my mind...into my mind...the
 prophecy said the two shall become one...Hyala ! Hyala !"
	^Yes Hayley?^
	"Are you....dead ?"
	^Only physically...Zakronius, can you hear me ? I'm not sure if I am
 able to speak to others beside Hayley or not...^
	Zakronius looked quite shocked, perplexed and bemused.
	"I...I hear you...Hyala ?  Hyala is it ?"
	^Yes. You are in the prophecy too...the bird told you ?^
	"Yeah. Something about finding the child of hope..."
	^Hayley, that's you.^
	Now it was Hayley's turn to look surprised.
	"Me ??? All that time mother was drilling us with the prophecy she meant me ??? I'm the one who will cause the downfall of evil incarnate ? But...you were the priestess, we always thought it would be you."
	^No, the child of hope is you, sweet sister, and you will be the death of undeath...with the aid of the others of the prophecy, of course.^
	Zakronius spoke next.
	"I'm the man of nature, right ? Who are the others ?"
	^The men of day and night are Rollik and Timelord, two warriors who
 helped me escape a prison and who now seek Hayley. I have conversed with
 others of my kind, that is non-corporeal beings, and found out that the man
 who isn't and the child of shadows have found each other somewhere to the north of here. Their names are Helios and Darvin, more than that I either do not know or cannot tell.^
	"Then what's the next step ?"
	^Travel through these caves, you will find food and water in the first
 cavern you come across after this one. Find an exit beyond a cavern of
 luminescent fungi, it will lead you to the child of shadows, and then to the
 man who isn't...He shall be the one to find the men of night and day. Now I
 must leave for a spell, but I shall return when I am able... Farewell Druid,
 sister.....I'll be back...^
	{That's what the terminator said.}
The last entered Zakronius' mind, mind-spoken from his magpie familiar.
	*Got a problem pal ?*

And so they began to walk.....