Not telling all...

Upon arriving at the Baron's Mansion, Dree, Drat, and Arnie were quickly ushered into the sitting room to meet where the Dowager Griselda and her son were having tea.  "Fiddlefaddle, please bring some more tea and cookies for our guests.  If I am not wrong, they have a lot to tell us and I think they will need something to wet their whistle with," the Baron told his BAT man. 

"Very good sir," Fiddlefaddle answered as he left the room while the others looked around the room to figure out where to sit.  Dree went straight to the pile of pillows that the Dowager now left out for him when he visited, Drat sat in a chair closest to the doorway (as was his habit since he always was watching for escape routes), as Arnie nervously stood not knowing where she should sit as rarely was a 'Borrower' invited into such an elegant room.  The Dowager had been watching her since they had entered the room and had quickly realized the situation.  "Sit down here besides me dear," she told Arnie.  "You are welcome in our home for you are one of our friends now."  ​As Arnie warily moved to the indicated chair and began to sit, the Dowagers question really surprised her.  Enough to make her stand back up!

"How is being a 'Finder' working out for you," Griselda asked.  As Arnie had just decided to become a 'finder' when Dree and Drat asked for her help, how did the Dowager know?  Before Arnie could ask that question to Griselda, she answered.  "A flutterby that I had sent to Dree to see how things were going with the Gooblin King told me your decision.  I think it is a terrific choice.  I may even have a few things that I will need your help in 'finding' that have been mislaid here in the Mansion.  

When word gets out, I think you will be very busy."  As Drat had been listening to the conversation (as again was his habit of eavesdropping which was one of the requirements of his job for the Troll King), he noticed a couple of small tears forming in the former Borrower's eyes before she sat down near the Dowager.  The Dowager's question did not get an answer, but Arnie did say 'thank you' very quietly. ​

"As we wait for the tea and snacks, who wants to tell us what happened with Hir'aeth?" asked the Baron as he looked over to address Drat.  "By the way Drat, King Dulbbe has already told us about your mission and is on his way here to meet with you."  Nodding his head in acknowledgement, the rat (as well as Arnie) both looked over at Dree to see if he would start.  Feeling their gaze, the dragon smiled to himself and began the tale of their adventure.  "Drat and I asked Arnie to join us as we figured having a professional 'finder' would improve our chances.  It did and without her we may never have had an audience with the Gooblin King."  As the tea and cookies arrived, Dree went on to tell of how they met with the King, was granted a favor by him for a favor to be repaid later, and the discovery of the 'scroll'. 

"Have you read the scroll?" asked the Baron when Dree was finished.  "That is the problem," the Dragon replied.  "It is not a scroll but a device that only I can hear when I ask it questions."  Now that did surprise everyone since Dree had not told his traveling companions either.  "You mean you have been talking to it since we found it," asked Drat.

"Well... Yes and no.  It talked to me when we entered the last treasure room with the Gooblin King.  It was a voice that came to me telling me what to say to Hir'aeth.  It wasn't until later that I realized that only I could hear it," answered the Wish Dragon.  "I did not want you both to think I was going loony and talking to myself until I got the chance to figure what was going on."

"And what have you figured out," asked the Dowager.  It took a minute before Dree responded since he wanted to be precise but was still slightly reluctant to tell everyone everything since he was not sure about some of it himself.  "It appears the device was made by the only other Moon Dragon to have existed.  It was told to remember everything it had seen or heard from when it was with the Moon Dragon and after they were separated.  I still don't know what happened to the other Moon Dragon and I have not had a chance to ask IT about by my kin who departed this realm," answered Dree.

As the others sat and thought about what Dree had just told them, it was Dree who decided their next move.  "It is time I ask it our questions about the Dragons and see if IT knows why the Dragons left and why have they returned," he told the others as he started to open the bag the Oracle was in.