Leaking Light...

A green glow of light leaked under the door of room 101 in the Shadows' castle.  Occasionally it would flash brighter then darker, but the light did not go off.  As one of the servants passed by they noticed the light leak from under the door.  "I must bring a mop and clean this glow up before it leaks any further," the servant grumbled as he headed off down the hall.  

While Efem and the Dowager Griselda were working to find out more information about Aralt the Herald, others were following up in another direction.  But Dulbbe being the multi-tasker that he was also was thinking of Queen Ffion and how much he adored her.  "When I was a bookkeeper, it was a distant dream," he thought, "but as a King, who knows?"  Because of this, Dulbbe was taking every opportunity to cement the relationship between the new Shadows' Queen and the Troll Kingdom.  This meant that he would find some pretense to visit the Queen's castle every chance he got.  One day it would be for something he forgot in his old rooms and the next day it was because he wanted to maybe borrow a book to read.  It was the book idea that reminded him about another opportunity he could use to help on the Dragon's return.

Sitting in Ffion's receiving chamber Dulbbe said, "Recently, before becoming King, I discovered an orb in your library," he told Ffion looking up through his thick glasses.  "It started to teach me the language of the Dragons and based on what request that I ask, possibly other things.  Perhaps if we look into it together, we will be able to tell the others what we find?"

​"Which room is it in?" asked Ffion.  "I would like to show the "Olders" that we can do our part."

It was the 'we' that made Dulbbe smile.  "She thinks of us as a 'we'," he happily thought with a dreamy look.  "It was in the library," Dulbbe answered as he gazed at Ffion with a sappy smile.  "In Room 101."

It took a minute before Ffion realized that it was in that room her father had locked himself into prior to his disappearance.  "Maybe he was doing the same thing," she thought.  Without a further hesitation she stood and started towards the library as Dulbbe realized she had made a decision and tried to keep up with her.

"Did the orb glow green?" she asked Dulbbe as she passed through a doorway.  Surprised for a moment from her question, the Troll King stopped in his tracks and looked at her back as she continued walking to the library.  Realizing she was not going to stop, he hurried to catch up with her "How do you know that?" Dulbee asked.  ​

"I delivered a meal to my father before everything happened and he was yelling at a green glowing orb with a picture of a Dragon's head in it," she answered.  "I forgot all about it until you mentioned the room that he was in.  Room 101."

As they neared the room, it was Dulbbe who noticed the green glow emanating from under the door.  "It must still be there," thought Dulbbe.  Ffion quickly opened the door and stepped in with Dulbbe following.  "I found the orb on the third shelf in row four..." said Dulbbe but as he entered the room and looked towards the shelf, he realized it was no longer there.  It had been placed on a ledge near the doorway by the King when Awena and the Dowager had told him that the Dragon tablet was on it's way to the castle carried by a Borrower apparently forgotten.  Ffion picked it up and walked towards a table to set it on.  As she placed it down, she turned to Dulbbe.  "How does it work?" she asked.

"You ask it a question and if it has the knowledge it will answer.  If it does not or your question is incomplete, then it will tell you that too," replied Dulbbe.  Impatiently the Queen looked at the orb and asked "Do you know where my father is?"  As the orb flashed bright green for just a second, it answered.  "Yes."

As Ffion waited for it to say more, the orb only continued to glow.  Exasperated, she growled, "What to you mean 'yes'?"

The only response she got was "Your question is incomplete.  What knowledge do you seek?"  Dulbbe knew that this was going to take a little time...