Goodie for Arnie...

Arnie was a solitary Borrower.  She normally traveled alone and had few close acquaintances and none she would label as 'friends'.  Borrowers did not make friends easily since within even themselves they could not help from borrowing things and that act normally did not endear them to others.  After all, the saying "Neither a Borrower Nor a Lender Be" was the only way Borrowers could live together at all. ​

As Arnie continued her walked to the Goodies cottage with the (mischievous) Wysp, (studious) Dulbbe, and (questionable) Drat, all the while the Wysp talking about some of the tricks it had pulled on others, Arnie wondered if this was what it was felt like to hang out with friends.  As this was just too deep of a thought for her to ponder on for long, thankfully her thoughts were soon interrupted when they passed a stand of trees and saw the cottage they had been seeking. ​

​"What did I tell you.  Here it is," bragged the Wysp.  "I will wait out here.  The  last time I visited I found out that Goodie4U doesn't have a sense of humor at all!" the Wysp complained. 

​Arnie just shook her head from side to side realizing that getting her here might just be the one good deed the Wysp had ever done.  But Arnie still wondered what the Wysp could be up to. Plus it would be nice to know what it did to annoy the Goodie sister.  "That might be a good idea," answered Arnie as she started towards the cottage door but then hesitated.  "What if they tell me I should give back the tablet?" she realized.  Arnie had never really owned anything that was not really someone else's. 

The owner of this tablet had been gone for so long and since the tablet had been left alone in a cave, untouched for eons, it was a find she could tell herself was all hers.  What bothered her the most was that this feeling of 'owning' something was a new feeling for her as Borrowers are quick to trade whatever they have "borrowed".  ​

As she again approached the cottage door, it slowly opened and she heard a voice calling "Come in, my Dear." Hesitating again at the threshold, she finally told herself   "Quit being a scaredy-mouse and see what's inside" - so she entered the cottage and quickly forgot about losing her tablet as she started wondering what she might find hidden here (as every true borrower does).

​"Well, don't just stand there with the door open.  Close it behind you Arnie," the voice said.  Quickly scanning the room, with her eyes darting from each wonderous and intriguing delight, Arnie was fast making her lists of "What was worth borrowing,  where were all of the exits, and if there was anyone there (it would not do to have a witness) were always the rules of a Borrower's first priorities.  This time, the last priority of the Borrower's short list was Arnie's first thought.  "Who was there in the cottage with her?"