[Child of the 7th Age]

OOC--Please consult the discussion thread for an important notice.

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Daisy ran back with Bird, only to find both Pio and Cami awaiting their arrival. Cami had asked for a moment to say goodbye to the women. Then she intended to excuse herself while Bird and Pio and Daisy hammered down the last details of their mission. Cami hugged them both and wished them good speed and all the safety in the world.

She had only one small word of advise about surviving in the prison. "Daisy, Bird, the one thing that may help you is to never forget who you are and what stands behind you. You must remember the Star. You may have so much fear and sadness all around that it becomes easy to think that's all there is in the world. But that's not true. Cling to your memories of this place and your friends. Sometimes take a minute to sit and dream about what lies here."

Then she told them of her own idea for a dream quilt, since she thought it might carry a little solace on the road ahead. And Cami said how she and the hobbrim would craft a dream quilt from scraps of cloth to be given to Pio's little twins. For, as they grew, even after the words had slipped away from their minds, the children would see the pictures and understand something of what had taken place, though imagining it to be a strange dream or vision.

And each companion on the Star would be asked to say what image stood strongest in his or her mind. And that image would be woven into the great quilt, without any explanation or chronology, but with the truth still lying underneath.

Daisy knew the scene that she wanted. She asked Cami to make a picture which showed her coming up the waterway on the back of the dolphin.

Then, Bird leaned over to Cami and whispered some words in her ear to tell what her picture would be. But she would not say it so any others could hear. Then Cami parted from Bird and Daisy, each woman going the way that they had chosen and hoping to come together quickly again.

And then Cami went to every other person on the Star: hobbit, hobbrim, Man, and Elf, and even the grey peddler with his staff. And they all told her privately what scene to place into the dream quilt to represent their deepest memories and hopes. And the hobbit returned to her cabin, feeling as if she had been given a great bouquet of flowers, each with a different fragrance and color.

[ October 04, 2002: Message edited by: Child of the 7th Age ]