Arkontheroof
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Sly Nathan
I scramble up towards the hut, desperately hoping that I can reach the building before they do - but it's hopeless. I get to the side wall just as they are entering the front door, and I freeze, fearing that they will find Ren. But there is no arguement or confrontation, no scuffle. I sink low to the ground,and start to crawl backewards away from the building: I have no idea what I should do next, but I don't need to be so close to ponder it.
Then when I'm about half way down the hill, I see a shadow in the silver moonlight, lithe, swift and slight, scurrying down to the trees where I had been waiting. Ren! I scramble down the hillside after her, reaching the line of trees a few seconds later.
"Ren! I'm really sorry - they came from the other side, I couldn't get to you in time...."
"I know!" she isn't scared - she'e excited. Why? "But guess what I found!"
I look at her hand, and see several sheets of paper or parchment. "Letters, perhaps?"
"No! Well, yes - but more! I found silver!"
"Silver? You mean, a bag of coins, a purse...?"
"No! A silver bar! Burried by the house!"
Silver. A whole bar of it. "A big bar?"
She nods.
I've lied, cheated and stolen for less. Frankly, I lost my home and business for much less. "Show me!"
"But it's up there...."
I nod. "You think they'll spot us?"
"Well, no...." she seems so sure, I don't think to question why.
"Then lets go - show me!"
She leads the way up the hill, uncertainly, and we approach the back of the hut.
The wind is blowing in the trees at the foot of the slope,and is rusting through the thatch, but there is another low whisper on the air, too, almost a moan. No, it is a moan, quiet from inside the house. Then the moan suddenly rises in pitch and becomes a yelp, subsiding again. Now I know why Ren was uncertain about coming up here, yet so sure that they would not spot us.
She leads me to the back of the hut, and crouches in the sandy earth. I kneel beside her, and see where her fingers are scratching. I see nothing, only sand, but we kneel so close that our thighs almost touch, and the woman's wimper from the hut reminds me of our earlier... contacts. I stop looking at the sand, and let my glance run up her slender arm - when suddenly she hisses "Look!" And I look down.
The glint is unmistakable.
I look at the exposed silver, and wonder how much more might be burried there - perhaps none, but perhaps.... And I look up at Ren, who is staring back at me.
From inside the house, suddenly the woman's moan becomes a shout, and then "O non, non, je vous m- ah oui! Oui!" And then her cry is stiffled, forcibly. I'm still looking into Ren's moonlit face, and in her eyes I see a flash.
And that glint, too, is unmistakable.
I scramble up towards the hut, desperately hoping that I can reach the building before they do - but it's hopeless. I get to the side wall just as they are entering the front door, and I freeze, fearing that they will find Ren. But there is no arguement or confrontation, no scuffle. I sink low to the ground,and start to crawl backewards away from the building: I have no idea what I should do next, but I don't need to be so close to ponder it.
Then when I'm about half way down the hill, I see a shadow in the silver moonlight, lithe, swift and slight, scurrying down to the trees where I had been waiting. Ren! I scramble down the hillside after her, reaching the line of trees a few seconds later.
"Ren! I'm really sorry - they came from the other side, I couldn't get to you in time...."
"I know!" she isn't scared - she'e excited. Why? "But guess what I found!"
I look at her hand, and see several sheets of paper or parchment. "Letters, perhaps?"
"No! Well, yes - but more! I found silver!"
"Silver? You mean, a bag of coins, a purse...?"
"No! A silver bar! Burried by the house!"
Silver. A whole bar of it. "A big bar?"
She nods.
I've lied, cheated and stolen for less. Frankly, I lost my home and business for much less. "Show me!"
"But it's up there...."
I nod. "You think they'll spot us?"
"Well, no...." she seems so sure, I don't think to question why.
"Then lets go - show me!"
She leads the way up the hill, uncertainly, and we approach the back of the hut.
The wind is blowing in the trees at the foot of the slope,and is rusting through the thatch, but there is another low whisper on the air, too, almost a moan. No, it is a moan, quiet from inside the house. Then the moan suddenly rises in pitch and becomes a yelp, subsiding again. Now I know why Ren was uncertain about coming up here, yet so sure that they would not spot us.
She leads me to the back of the hut, and crouches in the sandy earth. I kneel beside her, and see where her fingers are scratching. I see nothing, only sand, but we kneel so close that our thighs almost touch, and the woman's wimper from the hut reminds me of our earlier... contacts. I stop looking at the sand, and let my glance run up her slender arm - when suddenly she hisses "Look!" And I look down.
The glint is unmistakable.
I look at the exposed silver, and wonder how much more might be burried there - perhaps none, but perhaps.... And I look up at Ren, who is staring back at me.
From inside the house, suddenly the woman's moan becomes a shout, and then "O non, non, je vous m- ah oui! Oui!" And then her cry is stiffled, forcibly. I'm still looking into Ren's moonlit face, and in her eyes I see a flash.
And that glint, too, is unmistakable.
