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Caravan frowned and turned her attention (as aggressive as she 
knew it would be) to Kenji.  She saw him, hunched over his bedroom 
desk, scribbling furiously as a fan lazily blew air in his general 
vicinity.  He hadn't said a word in hours, and Caravan was 
beginning to get bored.
     Caravan hated boredom.
     She rolled over on the bed, her tee-shirt running up and 
untucking from her shorts as she did so.  The sudden coolness of 
the moving air on the small of her back provided a welcome 
diversion, and an ever-so-small spark of energy.  She grinned, and 
silently slid from the bed to the floor.

Kenji never noticed the shadowy form rising like a dark phoenix 
behind him, nor could he have reacted in time had he detected it.  
For as he wrote, furiously writing word after word, sentence after 
sentence, filling pages of his journal, his mind wandered 
tangentially, remembering tiny bits of his adventures.  Meeting 
Caravan, no... summoning her; that first evening under a starry 
rural sky when he and Tanako... but no, that was too early to 
tell; That moment of terror when he saw those he knew as his 
friends and those he thought were his enemies transform; the two 
worlds he traversed, and the time he had at once gained and lost; 
the war that wasn't, but maybe it indeed had happened...
     Kenji never noticed Caravan's inky silhouette, never heard 
the whisper of cotton peeling itself from hot summer skin, never 
conceived of such a strange, almost pornographic wrestling move.  
Never, that is, until he felt the twin tips against his back, the 
slow inhale, and the low growl rising from his assailant's throat:
     "Suckerfish Suplex!"

>From an author you'd probably want to strangle...
     ...comes a heroine you'll want to glomp with impunity.

The triumphant, and much belated return:
It's A Rainy Day, Sunshine Girl!

Coming In August, 2003 (I Swear To You)!
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