There is a patch of trees a bit ahead. Seeking shade, you begin your walk toward them.

What was that- to your right- a streak of red?

You look over, but see nothing, and continue on your way. The sun feels unbearably hot on the back of your neck, and the trees seem so far away.

There! Now you're sure you saw something.

"Hello?" you call out, and wait. No answer,

You continue on your walk...there's the flash of red again!

"Hello?" you call out again, getting nervous.

No responce...but there, you see the red..there's something stalking you, far to your left....

You whirl and glare at it, trying to act as menacing as you can. But the creature merely grins at you. Her body is a brilliant gold to rival the grass around her, and uopn her back is a waving stripe of blue topped with sharp red, what you had seen before.

"I'm Pysma, a Melcey Pup," she says with a grin, and then pauses. "Where ya going?"

Taken aback by her attitide- perhaps the whole stalking thing was just a figiment of the mind- you reply, "It's hot out here; I was going to seek shade in those trees."

Pysma aquints and looks in that direction. "Well, you can if you want to, but there's a much less hot place right nearby, a small spring. I think you'd rather go there."

You thank her and walk in the direction she's indicated. She dissapears into the grass. As you walk toward the stream- the smell of wet earth and fresh water tints the air, so yuo know you're close- a dark shadow falls upon the area. Thinking a cloud may have passed overhead, you look up, but all you see is clear sky.

Shaking you head, you look diwn and discover the small sream flows by your feet. Hoping it is safe to drink, you lean down into the water. Strangley enough, there seems to be something glittering in the water. You reach your hand down to pick it up.

In your hands is a small, dark, dull pebble. Surely that's not the object you saw glittering in the water...but the glittering is no longer there. Perhaps the object was washed away by the flow of water.

Its getting dark very quickly. What happened to the bright noon light you saw earlier? It could not have gotten so darkly on its own...on instict, you look up and arond you,, your eye catching sight of a shadowed form in the night air.

There are ligth blue bands across its body. It watches you for a moment with two bright eyes, its mouth hanging open as if in laughter, and then dissapears into the darkness. Within moments it is light in the pasture again.

Therre...in the gainign light, you can make out a silvery white form just beyong a bush. Another one? She seems quiet, shy. Although she is of a brilliant moonlight white, long toothed patches on her back are stained with pale silver and dark-sky-blue.

She sees you watching you and flees, bounding into cover with one graceful, deerlike leap. Although you follow her with a few steps, you see no evidence to show that she was just standing there and so you back away, confused, and continue your journey.

Name: Pysma Gender: Female Sign: Fire

Name: Keranth Gender: Male Sign: Darkness

Name: Teileyvka Gender: Female Sign: Sky