Nutmegg Arrives...

As the travel slug pulled up to the disembarkment area of the slugway, Nutmegg noticed that Allspice was standing there waiting for him.  At first Nutmegg's hot temper flared as he thought, "I don't need anyone to meet me.  I am not a weanling Hobb-goblyn after all."  But quickly he controlled his flash temper by remembering that he did not know the way to where SPICE had set up their kitchens to mix the Dragon's Ambrosia and it was only logical for Allspice to be there.  

​"Sometimes feelings conflict with logic," he told himself as he repeated his 'knit one, purl two' mantra to keep his anger in check.

By the time that Allspice saw Nutmegg and approached, Nutmegg had his temper in check and realized that he actually was a little glad to see the leader of SPICE.  "How was your trip?" Allspice asked as he helped Nutmegg with his baggage.  After the usual banter about delays and overcrowding, they both started their walk to the caves where the SPICE kitchens were being set up.  "I wanted to meet you when you arrived so I can also bring you up to speed on what is going on in this realm and an update on the Wish Dragon activity," said Allspice.

Only nodding his head to acknowledge he was listening, Nutmegg waited for his leader to continue.  "I've been thinking as I waited for you and realized the best way to start is to tell you that I have found out that this realm is the home to the Wish Dragons.  They started here," said Allspice.  Now this revelation surprised the Hobb-goblyn enough to blurt out before thinking "Why did they return now?"

​Allspice laughed and told him, "If I knew the answer to that, we might be going home especially if I thought they were going to stay here and quit causing mischief with those mis-enchantments.  As SPIs, that is probably the first thing we need to find out."  

While Nutmegg was mulling over that answer, Allspice continued.  "This land is overall the Realm of Wymsy which also includes the Shadows' Realm and several other outer lands.  There is a mix of Fae and the mundanes that the Fae call 'Outies' for the 'Outies' do not possess magic.  They, for the most part, live together peacefully and work together.  The usual prejudices don't seem to be too prevalent, just the irritation of some of the usual nature of different races.  For example, almost everyone gets grouchy over the Pyksee and Wysp antics for practical jokes." 

This slightly surprised the Hobb-goblyn who was used to others not accepting his race.  "May this won't be such a bad assignment after all," Nutmegg thought.

"Back to the why the Dragon's came home.  Their Herald, Aralt was here to greet Siate' when they returned.  The main group of Dragons have not yet revealed themselves to the locals.  What they are waiting for, I don't know, but Siate' and Aralt have meet with a group of both Fae and Outies.  One big surprise was that a young Dragon was already here and the two of them were surprised when he introduced himself.  

​Afterwards I heard Aralt and Siate' discussing one of the remarks made at that meeting with the young Dragon.  It had to do with taking away a Wish Dragon's wishing ability."

As Nutmegg silently was thinking about what he had heard up to that point, the last line of Allspice's update threw all of those thoughts out of his head!  "Take away a Wish Dragon's ability to grant wishes?  Can that be done?" Nutmegg asked before he realized that if Allspice knew, they would have already done it to stop the Wish Dragons from casting more mis-enchantments.

"That's something we need to think about and figure out how we are going to find out more about this young Dragon.  I have found out he goes by the name of 'Dree'," Allspice said as they arrived to the caves where they would finish setting up their kitchen and temporary homes in this Realm of Wymsy.