The
amber Lion 3By Strega
At
the join between the merchant's quarter and the district called
Alltowne in Greyston, which practically everyone but city officials
calls Monstertown, there is a tall marble tower. Like many another
such it grows up out of a great warehouse, for the rich trading
families liked to build their palatial homes atop their ownings both
for security and for a few precious more yards of height above the
'little people' down below.
Below
the tower ran an alley called Cheap

Figurine
of wondrous power, Amber Lion
Amber
Lion figurines were created by the arch-mage Arda due to her fixation
with lions. (She later created the Khardaki lion people, whose name
means "People of Ard" in a local language. This tends to
explain the khardaki obsession with sex.) Amber Lions were created
primarily as sex toys but also guard their owners and have somewhat
more combat ability than a normal lion.
In
figurine form Lions are small amber statuettes of lions, usually with
on

The
amber lion 2
By
Strega
Karen
got the lion from Andrea as a gift, and an extravagant one. Though it
was hardly more than three inches tall the seated lion figurine was
made of amber and despite the large, dark and somewhat ugly inclusion
in the middle of the figure it was worth several hundred dollars.
But
Andrea didn't like it very much. She said she felt it was watching
her and had planned to sell it, but then Karen's boyfriend Dieter
dumped her, came back, dumped her again and generally tr

The
amber lion
By
Strega
It
was little more than three inches tall, smooth, and translucent, a
glass or crystal sculpture of a seated lion. The honey-yellow of its
structure had occasional air bubbles and there was a dark
imperfection in its center. The estate sale wanted fifty dollars for
it, and under any other circumstance Randy would have tried to talk
them down.
But
he recognized, or thought he recognized amber when he saw it. He
didn't dare wait to be sure and if he even took the time to l