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silver creature began to dissolve as Dennys lost sight and
hearing and thought. And Dennys flickered in and out of

being with his mount.

Sandy, barely holding on to consciousness, was not aware
that the arm he had held Dennys with was now holding
nothing. He felt himself drop to the ground. He did not
land on searing sand but on soft green. His burning body
was shaded and cooled by the great fans of a palm tree.

His unicorn had made it to the oasis.

2 w Telkan in the wilderness

Sandy slid slowly into consciousness, eyes tightly closed.
No alarm clock jangling, so it must be Saturday. He lis-
tened to hear it Dennys was stirring in the upper bunk.
Felt something cool and wet sprayed across his body. It
felt good. He did not want to wake up. On Saturday they
had heavy chores. They washed the floor of their mother's
lab, of the bathrooms. If it was showing again, there would
be snow to shovel.

"SandтАФ"

He did not recognize the odd, slightly foreign voice. He
did not recognize the smell that surrounded him, pungent
and gamy. Again his body was sprayed with cool wetness.

"Sand'"

Slowly, he opened his eyes. In the light which came from
directly above him, he saw two brown faces peering anx-
iously into his. One face was young, barely covered with


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deep amber down. The other face was crisscrossed with
countless wrinkles, a face with ancient, leathered skin and
a long beard of curling white.

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Unwilling to believe that he was not waking from a