A Death in the Tidran Family......

   Upon his return from his business on the mainland, the Scorpion discovers the abandoned silks and papers of the boy Fox laying on the shoreline.  He picks them up, and turns them over and over in his hands, knowing well what his friend has done, and why.  After all these months of missing his Master, he has returned to the sea from whence he came, all that long time ago.  Gently weeping, he murmers...."May the rest of your journey through time, and your walk through the City of Dust be one of peace, my friend.  By your devotion to your Master, and to your chain, you have earned it." 
    Slowly he turns, and makes his lonely journey back to the Fortress of Tidra.  "It's going to be a long, long day.", he mutters, giving himself fully over to his grief at the last.

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Testimo's account of his "passing from Gor" was graceful, and gracious, to say the least, probably much more so than mine would have been in the same situation.  How someone can just "disappear" after nearly two years of almost daily contact, with no contact and no information is beyond me.  There are real people beyond these avatars, folks, with real emotions.  Perhaps Fox's Master and chain brothers have their own  RL to deal with.  That, too is understandable, but at least say goodbye.  Emotional cruelty is emotional cruelty in whatever world it occurs in.  That's all I'll say about that, out of respect for those that go on.

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R.I.P.  Fox

You will be missed, my friend.