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The following fragment was submitted by SLoM on 17 May 98. It is a part of a greater work that he is currently writing. Please peruse it and fill out the questionnaire that follows the work. Thank you in advance for your participation.

Kearn was among the first to arrive. Tears threatened his eyes, but he reigned in his joy at having his faithfulness realized. He swooned to Merlin's side taking up a hand in his own as much to comfort as to assure himself that this was real. His master had in fact returned.
When the physicians arrived, Kearn was away at their instruction and returned, gliding through the onlookers crowding the entranceway in increasing numbers as news of Merlin's return spread.
Kearn had retrieved a container of the restorative agent that the physicians sent him for. He wedged himself between them and Merlin as they measured a quantity into a cup. He seized it and pressed the cup into Merlin's hand as he aided him to sit upright.
The aroma of it's contents tugged at Merlin- tempting him as though he heard, "have you anything to exchange," in a seductive whisper on the very edge of his mental horizon. It appealed to instincts at the very fiber of his being. His body responded to the query by lifting the glass to his lips; in tacit agreement.
He could almost swear that the contents surged forward and into his mouth. As some voracious beast eager to dispatch it's prey, it lunged down his throat before he could swallow. The liquid deluged his abdomen. A call went forth throughout his body and his blood seemed to rush inward from his extremities. A convection formed throughout him delivering relief in exchange for his hunger and fatigue. He wanted desperately to pull the draught from his lips but the beast had a firm hold of him. Panic propelled him to his feet. He hurled the glass from himself. It shattered against a wall, already empty of it's former contents. Merlin exhaled a deep sigh of relief as though a life long thirst had just been quenched.
He sat and basked in the aftermath, the restoration of himself in both body and spirit. He knew that the barter had been completed, the price exacted, and the service rendered.

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