Who's Dman - Issue 25: A little lost...

I found myself walking alone in D'stadium. It was quiet. Paper litered the floor. Things were quiet since the holidays. We held off on the final contest of D'cathalon in order to allow people to enjoy the holiday season more. Button Central was alos fully on hold. I didn't have anything to do. So I went for a walk. I took some time to look back at how the year had gone. I was very happy with eveything I had done. I had so many people who'd visited all the sites I'd created and I had gotten to meet so many of the new Dfamily members. Though I looked around the stadium, and felt even more alone.

In the begining of the year, Dfamily was still close and any new thing was exciting for all. Somewhere I felt that I had lost that closeness to my fellow Dfamily members. I didn't keep in touch myself and felt myself drift away. I was about 2 key strokes away from allowing Button Central and Who's Dman drift away and retire from the Site Fights. I found myself torn with this descision. Could I allow two years of work, hard work, just go. Could I let everyone I'd known and met in the Site Fights just slip away and disappear. I told no one of what I had planned. I told no one of how I felt. Not even my partners. I only recently told them. I felt twas NOT the time to retire, but to recommit myself to the Site Fights. This year was going to be better than last year.

Odette found her way into the stadium. I somehow had found myself sitting in the muck that was now it's floor. She flittered over to me holding two different dresses. "What do you think Duncle, the blue or the Black?" She asked. I looked at her with a smile, "The Black of course" "Yippee!!!" she did a soumersault in the air. "That's my favorite, thank Duncle, you always know the best one" Then with great speed, she flittered on out of the stadium.

It wasn't long befroe Dfun came along. I had actually managed to stand up. Dspot was running along behind her. Within two seconds I found myself laying with my back in the muck. Dspot licking my face. I scratched him behind the ears and found a D'biscuit in my pocket. "Come on Dspot" Dfun yelled "Duncle is busy, leave him alone." Dfun ran up to me. "I can't thank you enough for Dspot, he's just so much fun." Dfun and Dspot went trapsing off through D'stadium. I couldn't help but smile as I saw them running off together.

After about an hour of wandering and think of the year to come, I found Graeme. He was in his workshop working hard. The holidays over, his project list had grown. He had lines and lines of script written on blackboards and peices of paper. I stood outside his window and watched for a while. Finally I went in. "Morn Graeme" He turned "Duncle, how were your holidays?" I found a chair and removed the books from it to sit down. "I had fun, didn't do too much. How about you" Graeme put his chalk down and cleared himself a chair. "I had a nice vacation. Got a lot to do this year. Everyone is so busy, which means I'm busy." We sat and talked for a while. I knew he had a lot of work to do so I let him get back to it and let myself out.

I decided to go back to my favorite hang out, D'cafe. Very few people were there. D'general and D'queen were there. Having a quite lunch together. We exchanged greetings. I also saw Sarina, "I got your submission for D'sweetheart contest." I of course reminded that she had to win, for my little Kasie and Sarina share a birthday, Dec 1st. WOO~HOO. She was so cute and the shared birthday, she was a shoe in to win. Course I didn't want to butter her up TOO much. Didn't want to win by too big of a margin.. hehehehehe.. After eating a light lunch (for I have to start watch ing my weight this year) I went to go see Dman.

"Are you ready for the final contest?" I asked Dman. Dman was in an unusually relaxed state. "Of course. Have you heard what it is yet?" He smiled a big smile. I found myself suddenly nervous. "Um.. no". Dman leaned back and put his hands behind his head, feet up on the desk. "D'space race. I had Dstarla build us some special rockets for it. If you remember, this is only a one point event now, Nick and I are finally gonna take you two. It became apparent that Dman had not heard or had forgotten, I'm Dstarla's assistant. If she designed the ships....."Well, I guess I'll have to get ready for this one then" I smiled back at Dman. Oh yes, this year was gonna get off to a great start.....

Don't forget to check out the 10th event D'Space Race Please check out Odette's Coloumn to find out all about this contest and how it went. (editor's note: Sadly, I cannot find Odette's Column as it too, stopped coming out just like Who's Dman :-/ -- Duncan)

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