Nicola looked up from her kneeling position near the stream as she heard a beautiful melody. She was at first surprised and then hypnotized the by beauty that approached in the stream, naked. Nicola felt the presence of another but she was too mesmerized to both to look back. She rose slowly..her hands dropping at her side as she followed the slow, sensuous path the maiden strode.<br/><br/>Nicola stretched out her hand as if to touch the beauty but the singing maiden proceeded on as if guided by some unknown visage. She stopped not far from Nicola and she spilled water on herself- dropped as if from a<br/>golden goblet where ribbons of sunkissed ripples fell down her body. Nicola had the urge to meet the beauty where she was and she turned putting a foot in the water when she saw to her right- that Voleta was beside her. Nicola gasped..broken from her sensual trance!<br/><br/>"You! What is it you wish here! What poison and evil have you brought to this place of beauty and purity!"<br/><br/>Nicola drew her dagger..her wolf growling behind her ready to pounce if necessary!