Suggested changes: {before : after}
All of Zhu Shu's flashback to her childhood should be writen down for your
reference to keep the story straight, but it isn't necessary to dump it all
at once. One of the pleasures of a well thought out story is picking up
the backstory as the main plot develops.
I'm finding a lot of joined words that would be caught by a spel cheker. I
suspect that whatever wordprocessor you are using is making that mistake
while it wraps the paragraphs.
On Sun, 09 Jun 2002 18:05:30 -0400 "L.S McGill" <lsmcgill@hotmail.com>
wrote:
Here's the revised Prolouge. Thank you for the commentary and please let=
me
know if this works better. I will be making a list of those of you who ha=
ve
volunteered for beta reading, and will hopefully be sending out the revis=
ed
chapter one later this week. It's going to require a lot more revision th=
an
this one. I apologize for the RTF format, but plain text strips out all t=
he
italics and line breaks.
RTF is managable. Do you mean Chapter 1 will be RTF? This section came to
me as plain text.
Zhu Shu had come to Jusenkyo a week earlier, hoping the training ground
{wouldtest : would test} her skills, yet she had found none of the monste=
rs, vengeful
spirits, or any of the hundred other dangers the storyteller had claimed
could be found there, only the silent pools and the wind. Even the small
guides' hut had been empty. She had set her small camp by a freshwater
spring on the cliffs overlooking the valley and explored the area, but ha=
d
found nothing to explain the training ground's evil reputation. The clif=
fs
her grandfather had trained her on were far more deadly than the bamboo
poles, and they had nothing as soft as water to land in after a fall.=20
=20
So she had started her practice on the morning of her second day, finding
{thequiet : the quiet} valley a perfect place to reflect on the quest she=
had embarked on.=20
She had found the solitude and the daily rituals calming after the last
year=92s stresses. She carried out her exercises automatically as she al=
lowed
her mind to drift into memory.=20
Zhu Shu was Mandarin Chinese, the sole heir to the ancient Clan Dragon's
traditions and school. She had been raised by her aunt and her grandfath=
er,
her parents having died in one of the occasional fevers that sprung up in
{thecold : the cold} winters of their mountain village in Qinghai provinc=
e. It wasn't
ZhuShu's fault her father had died young and her aunt had proven barren,
leaving her, a female, as the Clan's sole heir. Nor was it Zhu Shu's fau=
lt
that her husband, whoever that might be, would inherit her Clan's sole
remaining wealth, the inn she had grown up in, and the family's shrine, b=
ut
her aunt had seemed to treat her as if it were. No matter how hard Zhu S=
hu
tried to please her, nothing ever seemed good enough. It hadn't stopped =
her
from doing her best to excel, if anything, it had ingrained the need to d=
o
her duties faultlessly deep into her. No matter how hard her training ha=
d
been, she'd striven to not only do well, but to exceed the standards her
{aunthad : aunt had} set, desperately trying to earn the slightest bit of=
approval from
the stern and bitter woman.
Her grandfather had been kinder and far more accepting of Zhu Shu, if no
{lessdemanding : less demanding}. Over her aunt's protests, he had accep=
ted the fact that his
only heir would be female, and had given her all the training he would ha=
ve
imparted to a grandson, teaching her the Art of the family=92s techniques=
,
{lestthey : lest they} be lost for all time. As hard as she trained to l=
earn the domestic
arts from her aunt, she strove even harder to please his exacting
standards.
=20
=20
Because of her grandfather's care, Zhu Shu had spent her childhood fairly
happily, despite her aunt's resentment. She had learned her duties from =
her
aunt as she helped in the inn, practiced with her grandfather in the
evenings, fought occasionally with one of the twin girls from a neighbori=
ng
village, spent the occasional free afternoon listening to the wandering,
blind storyteller from the Amazon village, or just got into mischief with
{herbest : her best} friend, Cherry Blossom.
=20
In truth, the only bane of her existence during childhood had been Sung L=
i,
the son of the local magistrate. His father, Sung Po, was the sole
representative of the communist government in the region, and spent much =
of
his time away from the village, keeping the Communist government from pry=
ing
too much in the village=92s affairs. Her grandfather had often praised S=
ung
Pofor keeping the communists from disrupting their province too badly, bu=
t
{asa : as a} result, Sung Li had spent too much time fending for himself.=
He had
taken for granted that Zhu Shu would be his wife and treated her
accordingly. All Li could seem to see Zhu Shu as was an inferior, a woma=
n
worth only his baser desires. As they had gotten older, his attitude had
only gotten worse. Despite her {mothers : mother's} dismissal of her com=
plaints as
unbecoming, Zhu Shu found his attitude degrading and hated him. When
{pubertygave : puberty gave} Zhu Shu a figure more like an American model=
than a normal
Chinese girl, she had had to defend herself more than once from his too f=
ree
hands. Her only escape had been when she could get away from village wit=
h
Cherry Blossom to their private cave in the cliffs above town. Sung Li w=
as
much too lazy to make the climb, and safe in their haven she and Cherry
Blossom spent hours talking.
Zhu Shu took another breath to calm herself and hoped her grandfather wou=
ld
be willing to listen. "He is lazy and lustful. He has treated me as if =
I
{amalready : am already} his and has laid hands on me in familiar ways. =
I despise
him."
Her grandfather strode across the Mandala to cup her chin in one strong h=
and
as he searched her jade green eyes for a long moment. Finally he closed =
his
eyes and in a barely audible whisper spoke. "So, it has finally come, as
{shesaid : she said} it must." He turned away without explaining the rem=
ark.
That had been just over a year ago. Since then, she had traveled the len=
gth
and breadth of China. She had fought more opponents than she could
{remember,and : remember, and} her skills had increased immensely, yet he=
r quest was still a
failure. She was wiser in the ways of the world and had learned how litt=
le
the traditions she cherished meant to the more "civilized" population of =
the
cities, but had found no-one worthy of her hand. Many had sought to bed
her,and she had had to forcefully dissuade a couple, but love had been
elusive. Nor had all of her matches been purely in a formal challenge ri=
ng.=20
Some had sought not just her body, but her life, and she had learned to b=
e
wary of revealing too much of herself outside of her own province...
Bringing her thoughts back to the present, she finished yet another form =
as
she contemplated what she should do. The thought of returning home a
{failureburned : failure burned} deeply, but there was nowhere in China s=
he had not searched.=20
Starting a new kata, she leapt to another pole, her hair streaming behind
heras she flowed through the air to land softly on a pole ten feet away, =
the
sole of her purple shoe making no more noise than the whisper of her swor=
ds
as she moved through the Opening Fan and into Summer Raindrops. Her shor=
t,
tight, sleeveless cheongsam clung to her like a second skin, leaving no
loosefolds of cloth to catch her arms or blades. The short skirt left he=
r
legs free to propel her into a leap that, after a twist in midair, landed
heron yet another pole forty feet deeper into the grounds. The long ribb=
ons
trailing from her sword hilts danced around her like living snakes, their
coils never touching or getting in the way as her swords flew through
Hummingbird Kisses the Rose.
Zhu Shu stopped on top of a pole to study him more closely. He moved
casually, yet with the assurance of a master martial artist. His aura wa=
s
equally as strong as the older man's, yet there was strength of character=
in
him that the elder lacked. It wasn't obvious, and his pride outshone it,
{butit : but it} was there.
=20
Intrigued, she watched as they dropped their packs and jumped to the pole
tops as easily as she could. Over the protests of the guide, they assume=
d
stances on poles not far from Zhu Shu, seemingly oblivious to her presenc=
e.=20
She hopped a pole closer as they challenged each other, then watched in
approval as they met in {mid air : mdiair} and traded a volley of kicks a=
nd punches.=20
She barely heard the guide warn, "Is very bad you fall in pool!" as she
hopped to another pole for a better vantage. The older man went flying w=
ith
a splash into the pool at Zhu Shu's feet.
At the edge of her consciousness, Zhu Shu heard the guide moaning. "Oh n=
o!=20
You fall in Spring of Drowned Panda! Tragic legend, very tragic..." The
rest faded as to Zhu Shu's shock, a giant panda erupted from the pool
straight at the young man. Too stunned to move, she watched as it batted
{theyoung : the young} man right at her. Stepping back, her foot found o=
nly air...
It took her nearly five minutes to find her swords among the rocks at the
{pools : pool's} bottom. As she came up for the final time, a low growl =
from behind
made her turn and freeze.
Stranger and stranger. Zhu Shu watched as the enormous catlike creature
disappeared into the fading morning mist before swimming to the edge of t=
he
pool. She grimaced as she realized the knots securing the front of her
{dresshad : dress had} come undone and as she pulled herself up onto a ro=
ck, she
pulled it closed...
She took off the dress and wrung it out, then did the same for her
{underwear;damp : underwear; damp} was better than soaked. She rigged a =
way to tie the dress
closed and redressed just as her ears caught the sounds of distant combat
from the cliffs above. She sprang towards a pole to investigate, and
narrowly missed falling into another pool as her altered size threw off h=
er
reflexes. Opting for the safer course of running, she sprinted towards t=
he
distant noise.=20
Zhu Shu hurried back down the path from the ledge, not trusting her jumpi=
ng
ability. It took several minutes to get back down to the edge of the poo=
l.=20
She was too late, the panda had already snagged the small black piglet th=
at
had crawled out of the pool, half drowned. He skipped away with the pigl=
et
as Zhu Shu drew up to the edge of the pool. She snagged the unfortunate
boy's pack with one of the ribbons on her swords and dragged the incredib=
ly
heavy thing out of the pool. She left it at the water's edge and snapped
{theribbon : the ribbon} dry as she followed the panda's trail.=20
It was too late; even as the guide turned towards her, his eyes widening,
{hishand : his hand} had released the piglet and it was falling towards t=
he boiling
water. Zhu Shu dived to rescue him from the scalding water, but as her h=
and
and the piglet hit the hot water, two things happened simultaneously...
For a few seconds, there was only stunned silence, then the guide spoke.=
=20
"{Sosad : So sad}. Now have no pig to cook nice for lunch..."=20
Zhu Shu fled the hut long enough to retrieve a new dress from her campsit=
e
before returning, but found the pig boy had gone while she was gone. The
panda had obviously availed himself of the hot water as well, since the
{olderman : older man} had replaced him. She noted he gave her an apprai=
sing look before
bowing, like he was checking her for visible weapons.=20
=20
"Hello, young lady. I am Genma Saotome of the Saotome school of Anything
Goes martial arts, and..." he waved over at the table where a once again
{maleteen : male teen} sat eating ravenously from a big bowl of noodles, =
"this is my
son..."=20
Zhu Shu bowed and assayed her broken Japanese. "Song Zhu Shu, Song schoo=
l
{ofSword : of Sword} Dance." She noted the nod from the boy as well as h=
is appraising
look. She glared up at the father. "Zhu Shu upset with panda man. Knoc=
k
{inspring : in spring}. Not look where throw son. Careless!" She put r=
eal venom in her
look.
"Perhaps, if I know the nature of your quest, I can aid you in some manne=
r
{torepay : to repay} my debt."=20
Genma's eyes lit up as he saw an apparent easy way out. "Then nothing co=
uld
be simpler. My son is nearly finished with his training and must soon se=
ek
{awife : a wife}, a martial artist of equal skill. You appear to be such=
a godsend. I
offer you Ranma's hand in marriage."
Zhu Shu retrieved her small pack from her camp and returned to the guide'=
s
hut to find the Saotomes sparring again. She watched them, and had to ad=
mit
Genma had trained Ranma well. His style was unorthodox, a blend of so ma=
ny
schools that Zhu Shu could identify barely a dozen moves. She had sparre=
d
with many masters of various schools in the last year, yet she was unsure
{shecould : she could} beat Ranma in a challenge. His very unpredictabil=
ity would give
himan edge. She had at best a fifty-fifty chance without calling on her
clan's secret techniques.
=20
She was thoroughly annoyed at the loss of her best practice dress. It ha=
d
been the only one she had that could stand up to the contortions of her
{dailykatas : daily katas}. The rest would survive a normal fight well e=
nough, but she was
out of luck for practice. Early morning katas seemed her only option. S=
he
found a good spot to continue watching the pair as she began to alter her
remaining dresses to accommodate a sudden dousing. As she sewed she stud=
ied
Ranma out of the corner of her eye, observing his various moves and style=
.=20
She was definitely intrigued. She smiled as she put the finishing touche=
s
{onher : on her} last dress and put it away, returning her gaze to the on=
going brawl
just as Ranma landed in the pond next to the guide's hut yet again.=20
Zhu Shu stood by politely as Ranma stripped off his shirt and wrung out t=
he
water, his rosy pink nipples erect from the cold pond. "You've been
{watchingme : watching me}. I saw you while Pops and I fought."=20
They sparred most of the afternoon, Ranma learning quickly that Zhu Shu w=
as
too fast not to take seriously, even though she had decided not to use an=
y
{ofher : of her} families secret techniques. He had proven too adept at =
adapting, and
until she had decided if he would be her husband, she didn=92t wish to te=
ach
him the arts of Clan Dragon. A few good hard smacks had gotten him over
trying to hold back, with out her having to resort to anything beyond pur=
ely
physical skills. By early evening, they had begun feeling each other out=
as
friends, deciding they actually liked each other.
Genma grunted, then went back to his mat. The Guide turned beet red and
{dovefor : dove for} his bed as well.
Zhu Shu put her hands on her hips and glared at the redhead. "Idiot. Ma=
ny
waterfalls near. Much rain. Many ponds. Ranma cannot stay boy. Will
change many times. Cycle is there each time. Blood on clothes unless us=
e
pad. Will use many pad. Zhu Shu not has many. Cannot waste or Zhu Shu
{havenone : have none} for her cycle. Ranma stay female. Get over cycle=
. Use fewer pad.=20
Not waste!"=20
Zhu Shu rolled her eyes. "So? Zhu Shu does same every month. Ranma not
{getsympathy : get sympathy}. Stop whining."
Zhu Shu had nothing else in common with Ukyo, the boy Ranma had been a
{friendwith : friend with} when he was six, but she treated him like Ukyo=
had. Like...=20
A friend.=20
=20
Zhu Shu hadn't put on any airs or condescended to him or belittled him,
{she'djust : she'd just} been herself and let Ranma be himself...
He sighed as he sat up, only mild twinges from his stomach and the heavy
{odorof : odor of} blood reminding him of why he was still a girl. He wa=
s embarrassed
about last night. He'd been convinced at first that he had irreparably
damaged himself experimenting, but Zhu Shu had been the calm rock in the
storm he had needed.
Zhu Shu was standing on one foot on a rock beside the pond and Ranma dran=
k
{inthe : in the} sight of her... Zhu Shu extended one leg and Ranma's' e=
yes followed
the long graceful arc of her calf up to her thigh and from there to the
jointof her legs, then up the soft flatness of her stomach. From the swe=
ll
of her breasts to the arch of her supporting foot, she was all smooth cur=
ves
and shapely muscle. Ranma had never seen anyone so exquisitely and
completely feminine.
=20
She watched as Zhu Shu completed her warm up katas, and then reached behi=
nd
her back to draw forth her swords. Ranma's eyes widened... Zhu Shu was
{justas : just as} nude from the rear; she'd confirmed that just seconds =
ago... then the
question of where Zhu Shu had hidden the swords faded from her mind as sh=
e
flowed into her sword forms.=20
Strange emotions warred within him, causing unnatural hormones to flow as
{hisfemale : his female} body began to feel flushed with warmth and unfam=
iliar pressures
began to build. He felt strange as the sight of Zhu Shu made him wish th=
at
he could possess that same aura of desirability.=20
=20
Ranma's breath caught when he realized what he'd just thought. Wanting t=
o
{bedesirable : be desirable}?!! What kind of thing was that to be thinki=
ng? Everyone would
laugh at him and his father would hold him up to ridicule in shame of a s=
on
who had such thoughts! He had to get rid of this curse! He had to find =
a
way to be a male full-time again! Before this female body drove him mad!
Ranma stood there in shock as Zhu Shu gracefully did a back flip to dive
{withbarely : with barely} a splash into the pool. Then his jaw dropped =
further as a pale
blonde head broke the surface and green dragon eyes sought his. "Come!=
=20
Come! Zhu Shu cannot wash back by self!" the vision sang in a musical vo=
ice
that rang in his ears.
=20
Ranma shook himself as he thought Ahwhathahell; we're both girls anyway.=
=20
It's not like the water will reveal my real body anyway. What's the big
deal? She doesn't have anything as a girl that I don't have, right?=20
{Slowly,he : Slowly, he} approached the pool with its wet dream. His Dad=
had told him Zhu
Shu had been cursed, but...=20
Zhu Shu gave Ranma a long look as the redhead slipped off his loose top a=
nd
shorts before gingerly removing the panties Zhu Shu given him. Ranma was
relieved to see only a little fresh blood. As he slipped into the water,
{ZhuShu : Zhu Shu} finally answered.
An hour later, after Zhu Shu had finished her lesson, Ranma realized ther=
e
was a lot about females he had been ignorant of. He was glad Zhu Shu had
been willing to teach him, and that she had been so patient, and hadn't
laughed, or made him feel dumb. She'd been completely straightforward an=
d
honest with all her answers. Ranma had blushed till his ears burned aski=
ng
some of his questions, but Zhu Shu had never betrayed a trace of
embarrassment, nor had she balked answering any of them... She'd been su=
ch
{agood : a good} teacher that it wasn't until Ranma was watching her dry =
off that he'd
realized that he had not even thought of Zhu Shu as sexy the entire lesso=
n.=20
It surprised him. He had just seen Zhu Shu in more intimate detail than
{mosthusbands : most husbands{ saw their wives and it hadn't even occurre=
d to him how
weird it all was.=20
Normally, it took two days to travel to the Amazon village, which was jus=
t
over a day's travel from Zhu Shu's{' :} home, but the Saotomes sparred so=
much
and meandered so much that the journey looked like it would take closer t=
o a
week. Zhu Shu really didn't mind as it was giving her the opportunity to
spend time with Ranma and get to know him better.
=20
It had been three days since they had left the guides hut, and Ranma's
{periodhad : period had} been blessedly brief. He had stopped bleeding o=
n the second day
and the poor boy had been overjoyed to return to being male.
Zhu Shu perched beside him. "Zhu Shu know herbs. Some magical. Zhu Shu
{notknow : not know} much." She gave him a raised eyebrow. "Ranma need =
spell?"=20
=20
Ranma sighed. "Maybe. I don't know. I was hungry this morning and foun=
d
{aninn : an inn}. The innkeeper was making porridge and it smelled so
good..."=20
Zhu Shu looked down at the pot. "Not know. Zhu Shu only know few herbal
charms. Healing, love, luck. This charm of reversal. Maybe fix Dragon
{Hairspell : Hair spell}." She handed him the kettle.
Ranma looked down to see a long mass of red hair, growing longer by the
second. He quickly wrapped his hair into a pony tail and tied it off.=20
"{It'snot : It's not} supposed to grow when I'm a girl!"=20
A disturbance in the crowd attracted her eye and she watched nervously as
{theripple : the ripple} moved towards her. The crowd parted and a small=
, wizened figure
balancing on a pole hopped into the ring, followed by the dark purple-hai=
red
Champion that Ranma had just bested. Zhu Shu gulped and quickly grounded
{thepoints : the points} of her swords and allowed her chi to drain back =
into her.=20
=20
"Most Revered Elder, I am at your mercy. I ask forgiveness for any offen=
se
{Ihave : I have} given." she said.=20
Zhu Shu turned to face another elder who, if anything, looked even older
{thanthe : than the} Loremaster.=20
=20
"I am Cologne, Warleader of the Amazons, Child of the Dragon. Shampoo is=
my
great grand-daughter. This Ranma Saotome, he is a Jusenkyo-cursed male?"
{theold : the old} woman asked sharply.=20
"Ranma Saotome is not like other men. I do not believe he can be tamed t=
o
{bean : be an} Amazon male. To try and make him such may break him."
=20
Cologne gazed at her silently for a long moment, then waved the ring of
warriors away. She addressed Zhu Shu again. "It is said that Children o=
f
the Dragon see much that others do not. Would you join us in my hut for
tea? I feel we have much to discuss before my {great granddaughter : gre=
at-granddaughter} sets out
on her hunt...."
Cologne interrogated Zhu Shu for hours, digging for every scrap of
information she had on Ranma. Shampoo sat by, listening, at first
{jealously,but : jealously, but} soon realizing she had no cause. She wa=
s soon laughing at Zhu
Shu's descriptions of Ranma reactions to being treated as just another gi=
rl.=20
Zhu Shu found her heart going out to the cute Amazon girl. For Shampoo, =
the
world was mostly black or white, with very few shades of gray. She was a
warrior; proud of her strength, and for her, losing to Ranma had been a
{shamebeyond : shame beyond} bearing, redeemable only with Ranma's death.=
Yet once she had
found out that Ranma had been male, her shattered world restored itself a=
nd
her spirit had soared. Amazons admired strength and skill above all, and
{fora : for a} male to possess enough of both to defeat any Amazon on pur=
ely physical
level, let alone a Champion, made him a more desirable mate than any amou=
nt
of wealth or beauty.
Shampoo's bonburi intercepted the lightning-fast thrust of the practice
swordin Zhu Shu's left hand as she just barely jumped over the blade
{sweepingfor : sweeping for} her feet. She carried the motion into a ful=
l somersault as Zhu
Shu quickly turned the sweep into a cut through the bamboo pole she'd bee=
n
standing on. She landed on another behind the Mandarin girl, but just as
quickly abandoned it as Zhu Shu's sword flickered through it as well.=20
Shampoo launched her own attack in mid leap, the air pressure wave
{shatteringthe : shattering the} bamboo pole a second after Zhu Shu blurr=
ed into motion
straightup. As Shampoo landed, she had a sudden sense of danger, and bar=
ely
raised her bonburi in time to intercept the {swords : swords'} descent to=
wards her
head...=20
Shampoo marveled again at Zhu Shu's speed and skill as she angled for a n=
ew
perch. The Mandarin girl had been no challenge in unarmed combat, but sh=
e
was nigh unstoppable with her swords. Cologne had even allowed her to us=
e
the Amazon=92s secret techniques, and she was still just holding her own.=
Zhu
Shu's style was so fast and furious it was like fighting an octopus. She=
'd
gone through eight {bonburi : bon bori} in the course of the sparring mat=
ch and still
wasn=92t sure Zhu Shu had pushed to her maximum speed yet. She focused a=
s she
descended and concentrated on moving faster.
=20
She used the springiness of a bamboo pole to absorb her momentum and land=
ed
on a nearby rock, scanning for Zhu Shu. A flicker of green from far
{overheadgave : overhead gave} her a split second warning before a bolt o=
f chi shattered the
rock under her feet. Shampoo flipped in mid-air and began grabbing the
flying shards, launching them at Zhu Shu in a cloud.
Shampoo did a double take at the twin Zhu Shus, trying to figure out whic=
h
one was real, but neither sight nor sound gave an immediate cue. Zhu Shu
{wastoo : was too} skilled to make any noise when landing. Shampoo looke=
d over to where
her {great grandmother : great-grandmother} watched. How could the Manda=
rin girl know the Amazon
technique of "Splitting Cats Hair"?
=20
No matter, the figure on the pole to the right was too still. A light
{breezerippled : breeze rippled} the skirt of the real Zhu Shu's dress. =
Shampoo feinted
{towardsthe : towards the} fake, then launched herself at the real one.=
=20
=20
To her horror, at the last second, the illusion faded away, pole, ground,
{andZhu : and Zhu} Shu vanishing to reveal the...
Shampoo nodded as she turned to the shorter girl. "I haven't had that go=
od
{amatch : a match} in months. I almost wish you had been in the tourname=
nt."=20
For a long moment, Zhu Shu considered, and looked almost as if she was on
{theverge : the verge} of accepting, then a shadow crossed behind her eye=
s, and she turned
away. "I am honored by the offer Shampoo, but I cannot. I have not yet
fulfilled my quest. I can make no decision till then."
Shampoo hugged her and whirled her around. "Wonderful! There is nothing
{twosisters : two sisters} together cannot do!" =20
Shampoo and Zhu Shu joined hands, a flash of green chi swirling around
{purpleas : purple as} the link was forged. As they removed their hands,=
only small scars
remained where the cuts had been.
=93Now, let=92s go find my husband.=94 Shampoo said as she picked up her =
pack.=20
=93{Ifwe : If we} hurry, we should catch up to him by nightfall.=94
Zhu Shu=92s raised eyebrow let Cologne know she thought Shampoo was being=
far
too optimistic. She chuckled as she handed Zhu Shu a pack. =93Here you=
are,
great-grand-daughter. Some dresses for your travels. I noticed yours we=
re
{atrifle : a trifle} worn.=94=20
=20
Zhu Shu blinked, then smiled as she took the present. =93I am honored,
{ReveredWarleader : Revered Warleader}.=94=20
My email client is rendering your "--" as a black box ("=94").
"She is wise in many ways, but still a child. I'm hoping her friendship
{withShampoo : with Shampoo} will temper my great grand-daughters impetuo=
usness." She sat
down. "Primarily, I am relieved to have found that Clan Dragon yet
survives."
--=20
Mac :})
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