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Show me the way home...

4/19/2018

"Okay, Hungry, you hide behind the tree here while I will go sit on this stump. That way when a traveler comes along, better the chance I have to distract him and they won't see you" said Meen. "Isn't this more fun then jumping the frogs down at the Pond?"

About this time, the Baron started to appear around a bend in the trail and was heading right for them. "Get down, now Hungry, don't let him see you," reminded Meen.

Sitting there for someone to just wander by wasn't that exciting, thought Hungry. Besides, he was starting to get hungry.

As the Baron was now closer to the log, Meen decided it was time to leap out. Meen jumps from the log and lands in front of the Baron, startled he jumps back and raises his cane in defense. "What are you? Or more like, who are you?" asks the Baron. "You wouldn't be trying to get me lost now would you?"

"Are you asking for directions?" smiles Meen. Whispering to Hungry, "Let's hope so, that way we can send him around in circles. Otherwise this won't be as much fun".

Suddenly, from out of the bushes there came a low growl. "Be careful there, strange one, there is something behind that tree!" warns the Baron.

"Nah, that's just Hungry's stomach," Meen replies.

"Hungry?" the Baron repeats.

"Yeh, come on out Hungry, he heard you." Out of the bushes steps the baby Dragon, turns to the Baron and Meen and growls, "I'm hungry... I am going home."

As the baby Dragon meanders down the trail, the Baron inquires of Meen where 'home' might be? "Oh, he lives in the caves under the Baron's Mansion. I better go with him or Granny will be mad if he shows up by himself." With a big smile on his face, the Baron watches as Meen and the baby Dragon meanders down the trail showing him the way home!

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Following my itchy feet home...

4/12/2018

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Here I am, Belvedere Allowishes Theodore Steffon, returning home at long last with my itchy feet. This Baron's itchy feet have traveled the world and back and now they have followed the stars home.

Oh, what wondrous sites I have seen and what magnificent creatures I have rescued. Not only in the Mundane world but also in my own world. I have mapped a route through the Wandering Woods, paddled to the Fire Islands, trekked the mountains of Kilimanjaro, and it still amazes me how the non-believers go to such lengths to destroy Magic.

But, then again, it was my own people that took the Magic for granted and nearly destroyed it here in the Village. I was here when the last Dragon left and the Dragon Stones started disappearing. That is what set my itchy feet in motion, to go out and seek the Magic and to see what I could do to save it.

Now I have come home to relax in my own comfortable chair and to build. I think it is time to create a home for the forgotten magical creatures I have saved... my orphans.

Maybe in rediscovering my roots I can give them roots here as well. Every living creature should have a safe place to grow up in and know they are loved and appreciated. And no matter how much I appreciate magical and wild creatures, it is still a challenge. It would be like running through prickly bushes naked. It may be difficult to appreciate a prickly bush with no clothes on, but if you are very careful, you should be okay. Unless of course, that is your thing to just run around in the bushes naked... to each their own, but it does sound like something different to do... hmmm, maybe...

I think I will take the trail by the way of the Frog Pond. My Man, Mr. Fiddlefaddle, knows his way to the Mansion and can take the short cut. I think I will take the time to see what changes if any have been made while I have been gone.

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Clothes Make the Man... Naked People Have...

4/6/2018

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As I work on the body of my next character, the Baron (Bats), I need to be thinking ahead as to what he will be wearing.

All of my characters are very opinionated about their clothes and I do find this hard to be their dressmaker/tailor. After all, the clothes reflect their personalities and helps to set them in time. It also aids in the story they are telling.

So... What is the Baron telling me about his personality? He is older than dirt (very refined dirt of course), and he has a spring in his step. He draws on the magic of the Fantastic Beast's character who is looking for magical creatures, as I am partial to this steampunkish flair of clothes.

But he also has a little bit of David Niven in him. After all, the Baron is a great traveler and has an air of debonair about him. I really like the Pith hats too.

I will be needing to make one of those but just haven't decided which style to go with yet.

So in the words of Mark Twain... "Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society." As such, since my Baron isn't getting any younger, I better chase him down and get him dressed. I don't think this will be too hard as he does like it when someone chases him. He is a silly ol' goat with a mischievous twinkle in his eyes. *lol*

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