Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1997 11:16:02 -0000 From: RainiMadden Subject: INT: HHR Beauty made it to her old room and threw open the door. A gray, swirling mist covered the floor and spilled out into the hallway. Everything was put back in its place and organized. However, it did smell like home...Eau de Dysmal(tm). She sniffed her wrist. _No,_ she thought, _it's not my perfume._ "My lady!" a booming voice cried out that shook the windows. "Egideas!" she replied and ran to the large head that plopped on the window ledge. She immediately began to stroke the special place behind his right ear where the white scales were more like hide. "How have you been?" "I've just been spending time meditating," he answered. Time meant so little to a dragon that she knew he'd probably been sitting there the entire time. "Why don't you get out for a while and fly over the Haven?" she asked. "It's Valentine's Day again, you know." "Hmph," Egideas said, "you're here with *him*, aren't you?" "Yes, it's almost the anniversary of the day we fell in love," she replied as she hugged the dragon's large neck. "Humans," the dragon mumbled. Thinking about all the changes that she'd gone through and that Beast had gone through, she just laughed and laughed. "What's so funny?" Beast said from the doorway. Then, he smiled. Beauty couldn't tell if it was from the sight of her petting Egideas or the odor in the room. "Oh, nothing," she said and walked up to take Beast's hand. "I want to show you something," she said and walked to the wardrobe. She pulled out the strapless minidress she had worn a year ago. "Remember this dress? You came up behind me and helped me zip it up." He looked deeply into her eyes. "Maybe I'll get to finish *un*zipping it this year." Her eyes started to twinkle. "Maybe." She didn't even hear the sound of the scales slipping through the DragonDoor(tm). Raini ----{--{@ rainim@concentric.net "Genetics explain why you look like your father and if you don't why you should." --from a 5th/6th grade science student