Anchorage

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<div> <A HREF="beachbetween.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="To the Beach!"><U>To the Beach</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="beach.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Beach"><U>The Beaches</U></A></div> <div> Explore</div> <bR> <div> Open Sea</div> <div> Mating Fights</div> <div> Rank Battles</div> <div> Ysgothi Waters</div> <bR> <div> Library</div> <div> <A HREF="library.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Library"><U>Introduction</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="recordsroom.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Records"><U>Records</U></A></div> <div> Residents</div> <div> Cove Information</div> <div> <A HREF="bondsearch.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Bondsearch"><U>Bondsearch</U></A></div> <bR> <div> Longhouses</div> <div> Oddidan</div> <div> Rhyngan</div> <div> Orblaen</div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="dragonrundown.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ysgothi at a Glance"><U>Ysgothi @ a Glance</U></A></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <A HREF="http://www.geocities.com/gwynllaith_isle/" TARGET="_top" 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giant's heart.</div> <div> A violet seadragon, her smooth hide dotted in dark purple, surfaces a scant few inches away from the ship.  Her opalescent eyes glimmer for a moment, watching.  </div> <div> <IMG SRC="00f4d2e0.gif" border=0 width="589" height="302" ALIGN="RIGHT" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> As you disembark, she lashes her magnificent tail.  "You are new here," the violet remarks softly, long legs treading water.  "Ysgothi Cove welcomes you.  I am to extend the greetings of Lord Kethtaz."</div> <div> Quietly, she adds, "I am Amyss, bond of Apraiz.  There are but three humans here, not including the Bondsearched, but I shall see if I can find one for you."</div> <div> Amyss strokes away, eeling serpentine through the water.</div> <div> You shiver in the harsh sea breeze, and glance at the ship-and the warm berth you could have stayed in-with longing.  But the violet's promised help arrives in a timely fashion. </div> <div> A long-legged woman sprints across the beach, somehow keeping her footing on the sea-rounded stones.  She's breathing hard when she reaches the docks.  </div> <div> Blue eyes blink at you, set in a porcelain-white face, shadowed by a white fur hood.  The young woman extends her hand, cordially.  "Lady Nalanneive, Acting Covelord," she introduces, wiping her brow with a gloved hand.  Wincing as the wind throws a handful of freezing spindrift up from the pier, she gestures toward the nearest cliff wall, against which a long, low building is crouched.</div> <div> "That's the closest entrance," she pants.  "Please, come in out of the cold.  At least stay until we can outfit you properly."  Nalanneive's critical examination of your northern outfit is not unkind, but there's a quirk about her mouth that suggests she finds it amusing.</div> <bR> <a target="_top" href="http://w.extreme-dm.com/?login=efellai"> <img name=im 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