Arnie Stops for a ...

Arnie was keeping a close eye on the tricky little Wysp who was leading her to the Goodies cottage.  She did not trust the Wysp but she was desperate and needed a guide - even one who never seemed to stop talking.  "... and then there was the time that me and some of my friends tricked this Gooblin into..." continued the Wysp as it floated in the air in front of Arnie.  

​Something in what it had said, (Arnie wasn't really listening but it did remind her she needed something before seeing the Goodies) made her interrupt the Wysp.  "We have to make a short stop before seeing the Goodies," Arnie told the Wysp.  "My place is just ahead and I need to pick up a couple of things".

"Your time is my time," smiled the Wysp.  That comment alone made Arnie a little more nervous.  First with the Wysp offering to help and now being friendly.  "I will also have to pick up another magical  bottle just in case," thought Arnie.  "That sneaky little Wysp is up to something so armed with more than just one bottle might be a good idea."

As they entered the grove of trees where Arnie lived, just before walking up to the door, Arnie stopped the Wysp and told it to stay outside while she got her things.  "I haven't clean in a while and I don't want you to see how messy my place is..." the Borrower had told the little blue Wysp.  In actuality, Borrowers are neat freaks and Arnie would be mortified to think that her place had been left in a mess.  Stepping up to her door and standing with her back to the Wysp to block it from seeing how she opened the locks to get in, Arnie was too busy to realize that the Wysp was no longer even watching her.

It had found something else to keep it occupied.  "Two other victims to trick," giggled the Wysp as it spied both 'victims' hiding in the bushes.

As Arnie opened her door she was surprised!  The place was a mess!  "What is going on here?" she thought.  "This isn't how I left it..."  After walking through the chaos, she soon realized that someone else had been in her home and must have been looking for something.  "Why do I have a feeling they are looking for the tablet?" she asked herself.  In all of the years she had been 'borrowing', she had never had anyone enter her home.  "What is on this tablet?" she whispered to herself.

While Arnie was going from room to room to see if whomever had searched her home had found all of her secret nooks and crannies, the Wysp decided to check out the watchers.  "First the rat," she thought.  Flying over to where Drat was hiding she hoovered over him and started its questions...

"Whatcha doing?  Why are you in the bushes?  Your eyes are red, does that mean you are tired?" and many more.  Drat knew that he had been spotted, so he did what he figured was the best approach and swatted at the Wysp which it easily avoided.  "Go away!" he growled at the little blue fae.  "Can't you see I am busy?"

In a bush several yards away, Dulbbe had been day-dreaming about the crystal ball and all that it had taught him about the Dragon language.  "Who would have ever known that both numbers and music were required to read Dragon," he thought.  "I must see Hewy as soon as I get the tablet back from the Borrower."  As he was thinking about how Hewy might be able to help him, he finally noticed the Wysp and Drat in the bushes close to him.  "Where did they come from," his eyes popped open in surprise.

"Since you are not being very nice, I will go over and talk with the other one hiding in the bushes," said the Wysp to Drat.  "Maybe he will be more talkative."  Flying over to the bush where Dulbbe was hiding, it started asking more questions.  "What are you doing in the bushes?  Wouldn't it be more polite if you came out where others could see you?  Is there something special in the there?  Can I see?..."  It was then that the Wysp could see who was hiding.  It was that stupid Troll that made her answer the Shadows' King questions!  "What are you doing here!" the Wysp growled at Dulbbe but before he could answer, a thought occurred to it.  

​"We are going to see the Goodies, do you want to come along?" the little Wysp evilly smiled.