To Do List...

If anyone from the council was following Drat, they would be certainly confused as to where he was going. "How to keep a Dragon entertained without getting eaten?" asked Drat to himself.  "Yes, I know I was instructed to keep Dree busy until the council could meet with Aralt, but I need something special," he muttered as he continued writing on his check list and checking them off.  

"This check list thing can sure be useful," thought Drat.  The minion had never done one before until Dulbbe had become the Troll King.  The new king and former bookkeeper was a stickler for lists.  At first Drat thought it would be a waste of time and just one of those ways that having something in writing could get him into trouble, but after a while he realized they really were helpful.  "As long as I don't lose it and I don't make anything on it clear to anyone else but me, then I don't have to keep everything in my head," he had decided after using them for a time.  Now he did it to keep his mind free for other things and to help him focus on the issues at hand. 

"Of course the answer is easy," he chuckled looking at his list.  "Find something else for him to eat and  I know just where to go for that."  Drat had heard from his own sources about the Goodie Sisters providing Dree (at that time - Hungry) with a birthday party and about how much the Dragon loved the food so that is where he decided to pick up some snacks before showing up to keep him distracted.  The elder Goodie Sister,  Goodiegood, was at the council meeting but the other two should be at home - at least Drat hoped.

​Soon he was standing outside of the Goodie cottage, Drat could smell something cooking.  "Yup.  Someone is there," he smiled as his own stomach made a slight growl.  "Hopefully it is something that will be tastier than myself that Dree will like," thought Drat just as he was about to knock on the door.  Before he could though slowly the door opened by itself and he could hear Goodie4U calling out to him to come in.  "How do they do that?" Drat had thought for more than the first time.

As he walked through the doorway, a movement out of the corner of his eye made him jump through and roll under a table.  At first he was not sure what caused him to react like that, using one of his many survival skills, but he knew better than to question it for it had saved him many times.  It took a minute before he realized what it was and he still was not sure it wasn't his senses playing a trick on him.  

It was a circle of twigs above the door and for an instant he thought he saw a bunch of entwined snakes.​  "Why am I thinking everything wants to eat me? Is it because I  must be hungrier than I realized," he told himself as he crawled out from under the table but all of the time keeping at least one eye on the twigs.

"I have a bag of sweets waiting here for you," said Goodie2shues "with a couple of extras for your trip to the caves" as she handed Drat the sack.  "Tell Dree hi for us while you are there.  We made him some Chocolate Haystacks that Scarlet swears by especially since we knew that Dree loves chocolate.  There should be enough there to keep him from deciding if you are edible or not," she smiled at him.

"How do they do that," kept going through Drat's mind as he was ushered out of the cottage and sent on his way to the caves.  "If the other's knew their secret, it would put us minions out of work," muttered Drat as he nibbled on a Chocolate Haystack.