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"Well, yes," Mericlou said, already nervous about where the conversation was headed "But I haven't saved your life"

"Details, details," Aldrec said flippantly "And everyone knows that it's only a legend anyway; it doesn't ht? So here's the gaift And it can be anything you want, anything your heart desires"

"Anything?" Mericlou asked suspiciously "Are you absolutely sure you want to do that? I can i," Aldrec said with a slight nod "And you can try as many times as you like; how about that?"

"As htfully "It doesn't sound likeit away"

"Maybe," Aldrec said evasively, "and maybe not Perhaps I like the sport of it all"

"Can I try it now?" Mericlou asked after a ht

"Fire away"

"Two hundred?"

"No"

"Three Hundred?"

"Sorry"

"Three hundred and fifty?" "Uh-uh"

"By theall they did?

She leaned herself roughly up against the blood oak's narrow trunk and sulked Finally, the elf shows his face, and nothing happens! Oh, it was obvious that they liked each other a little; she had never seen her sister blush so much in one hour And the elf's face seelow of its own as they talked

"This is so boring," Alae ht Perhaps tomorroill be different

But it was no different

Neither was the day after, or the day after that one As a ht, and there had not been sothat ever happened between the idle chatter Meri would tell him about what happened the previous day, and Aldrec -Meri was on a first name basis with the elf at least- would listen patiently, and then talk to her Usually, his side of the conversation would consist of either that asinine age-guessing ga history lessons The only tiinally interesting hen he finished his lecture about how the Dwarven wars led to the race's extinction She found the notion of this place being his "garden of memories" to be very romantic