Forty Days of Flash Fic: Day Twenty-Three

[jeriendhal]

And back to our favorite Elfboi and his owner.

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Maria opened her umbrella as their canoe approached the geyser shooting out from the lake. "Is it just me, or is the water shooting higher now?" she asked, as cold salt water pelted down on them. The geyser had to be a hundred feet high now, even though it was forcing its way through the ten feet of water that now covered the hill in the center of the valley.

"You're right. The boat must have slipped down further beneath the water," Tez said, setting his oar down in the boat. "If it goes much deeper there won't be any way to cap the blasted thing."

"Oh, wonderful. Wait, what's happening now?" Even as she spoke, the geyser sputtered, then disappeared, the remaining water falling into the lake with a splatter. "Oh, did it get blocked by a rock at the other end? We couldn't have gotten that lucky."

"I'm never that lucky," Tez muttered.

There was a belch of water, like a drain spitting back up briefly, then the geyser shot upward again, carrying with it a glowing ovoid that shot through the air over their heads to slam back into the lake. Tez and Maria both grabbed their oars and paddled to where the ovoid floated, then shimmered and disappeared, leaving a human shape floating in the water.

Maria reached down and grabbed the floundering figure, pulling out a tall, dark faced girl with horns curving poking out from her black hair. "Alisa?" Maria cried out.

"Hi Mom, hi Dad," their daughter panted, crouching on the bottom of the canoe. "I"m so glad we found you!"

Comments

[meganeko-mausuu.livejournal.com]

They have a daughter?

[jeriendhal.livejournal.com]

At least five IIRC. Maria's whole purpose for purchasing Tez at a slave auction was to make sure she had plenty of long-lived half-elven children. Meanwhile she was expecting to be dead before she was 40, but things worked out better than she expected.