The elf leaned against the museaum's western pillar, her dark outfit full of snaps and buckles. Her eyes followed the group of tourists as the children passed, and she smiled as one noticed her. The little boy readily accepted the fact that it was an elf, but the thought that it was a pirate made him nudge his playmate.

"What?" the second child whispered as he looked at the empty space where his friend pointed. He shook his head and pulled the other one back up to the rest of the group, but his eyes were darting to and fro looking into shadows with the hope of seeing - well, - something.

The guide, a well meaning young man with a flair for the extravagant, was regaling the group with yet another story of high seas terror.

"Of course," he said with a drawl, "There's no such thing as pirates anymore. One thousand years ago, the royals of Caelon launched an anti-piracy campaign. The threat of pirates had been eradicated. As he turned to lead the others down another hall, a young woman,- green cloak draped over her snaps and buckles - appeared behind the children.

She smiled mischeviously, and spoke so only the two in the rear could hear her. "Don't believe a word he says, boyos. He wouldn't know a pirate if one kidnapped him and dropped him off of a plank, which we are tempted to do every once in a while." The three followed the group and listened to a few more points the guide was making before the boys' companion spoke again.

"One thousand years ago, The royals of Caelon were pirates themselves, both on the seas and in the courts. Measures of piracy are needed no matter where they happen." She bent down and whispered into the boys' ears, "Ask him about Terrace Leigh, and why she only had four fingers on each hand." As they turned to look at her, her light laughter, and a smell of seawater was all that remained of her.

The guys liked one of my evil overlord quotes last night. I did this one "when I make a bomb, I will make every wire red, and just memorize the one that I need to cut."

I gotta go find that paper I printed for Lucy and the gang.

Dammit, I'm hungry.

61 entries found for melancholy.
Entry:  melancholy
Part of Speech:  adjective
Definition:  depressed
Synonyms:  blue, crummy, dejected, despondent, destroyed, disconsolate, dismal, dispirited, doleful, dolorous, down, downbeat, downcast, downhearted, dragged, droopy, funereal, gloomy, glum, grim, heavy-hearted, joyless, lachrymose, low, low-spirited, lugubrious, mirthless, miserable, moody, moony, mournful, pensive, sad, saddened, saddening, somber, sorrowful, sorry, torn up, trite, unhappy, wet blanket, wistful, woebegone, woeful


Droopy's a good description. Somber would work, too

And now everybody's watchin' the seas for the damage of the gas from the broken vehicles.

I'm kinda melancholic this evening. There was a boat that went down in Unalaska last night, and 6 crewmembers are unaccounted for. They had a rough night. First their boat lost power 2 days ago, with the waves making it impossible to tug. When the Coasties tried to pick them up, a 30 foot wave knocked the helicopter out of the air.

I might laugh at the irony of an expensive piece of rescue equipment getting slapped out of the air like a bug eventually, but I've had the opportunity to meet a couple of the rescuers, and I really think they did a good job. My prayers go out to the guys and their families. Luckily, there was a second chopper to pick up the rest of the guys. I don't even want to imagine what they went through.
So now I'm typing and thinking of being hauled into a chopper in the dark rain, with God and all his water roaring in 360 degrees. 
Ugh.

Michael had a hard time of dealing with it at first. His jovial manner had been replaced with one of quiet thought. He worried that his one time friend had turned into a monster. Rogue elves were not allowed into the city. But what if his friend had become one of those most hated ones? Julet had told him that the elf was healing. The cold was being replaced with heat. One night, as he watched the elf staring into a fire at the local bar, she turned her eyes to watch him back. They stared at each other, his blonde eyes, amber with concern...hers grey and lifeless.

Then she spoke.

Spoke of the void that the greenback had mentioned. The Davidian belief of equality. So many things perish in the world, and something else will take their place. Mylenke and Tserak had created a void when they demolished the Elug clan. By Davidian law, she and her cousin were now expected to protect the remaining clans from what ever might take the place in the void.

As she talked, Michael saw her eyes actually flash. She was getting angry again, but it wasn't the anger that made a person dive for cover. She was starting to care again. The ones that harmed her were gone, and now she was obligated to protect, or take up the void and kill the entire race.

"It's a hard choice to make, isn't it?" He gave her a half smile, and deliberately lightened his tone.
She chuffed, and gave a self-depreciating smile back.

"Unbelieviably."