Ugh! Oh, that's...

​"Ugh!  Oh, that's a terrible joke," snickered Drat.  "Dree really needs to get better material.  That was one of his worst jokes ever."  As Drat shook his head from side to side, the punchline suddenly hit him and the double meaning of it made him start laughing so much that soon he was almost crying.  By this point everyone else who had overheard the joke that Arnie had told was laughing too!  Not that they all understood the hidden meaning, most were laughing because of Drat.  When he finally stopped laughing, Arnie heard him mutter to himself how tough it was going to be to find a joke to top it.  "Oh Dree, we are going to have to have a talk about your jokes..." Drat muttered.

Soon the silence returned to the Dowager's tea room and everyone there sat and quietly reflected on their encounters with the young Wish Dragon turned Moon Dragon who was now also their protector of magic.  It was Arnie who broke the silence first.  "Drat, Dree asked me to take care of his promise to the Gooblin King.  Are you available to help me?"

Drat, being the Troll King's chief minion, looked at Dulbbe before answering.  With a slight nod of his head, Dulbbe gave Drat permission and soon Drat was sitting with the Finder and discussing a plan.  That was when the others in the room started to talk again.  At first it was mostly small talk or memories of their encounters with Dree, but one in the group stayed mostly to herself and silent.  It was the Moonie, E'luminosity.

Ellie had shown Arnie how to return to the Realm of Wymsy and had made sure that the Finder could make her way back to the Tree.  She was about to return to the Monacle when Arnie asked her to stay a little longer.  Arnie felt she wanted her there as she told the others about Dree's decision.  At first Ellie was reluctant, but Arnie was so insistent. When Arnie told Ellie that Dree would probably ask how things went and if Ellie stayed the Moonie would then have something to tell him.  With that Ellie sighed knowing a few more minutes would not harm anything.

Ahhh, it's always amazing how a 'few more minutes' can change the world!

​As Ellie stood watching the others talking, the tea room began to darken and soon Ellie was standing in another place.

It was the Storage Room in the Luminary Council building!  "What is happening?" she thought as she saw the Bag of Possibilities sitting on the pedestal in the middle of the room.  As she watched, the string holding the closed bag slowly began to untie itself and as the bag opened, a blinding shimmering light filled the room.

This time Ellie was not blinded as she was the first time the bag had opened to give her and Meerher the items from before.  ​

​Ellie could hear in her mind what she had asked the Bag of Possibilities at that visit.  "What do I need to have to assist those that called for help?"  As soon as she remembered her question, a small booklike box appeared on the pedestal.  As she looked at the strange bag, she noticed that the gears were now sealing itself around the book, sealing it closed again.  As the final gear stopped,, Ellie heard a strange voice in her head.

"I give you the means to assist those that call for help.  When you return to the Monacle and House Mother, tell them what has happened and show them this box.  They will know what to do..."
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Ellie, as if just awakening from a dream, found herself again back in the Dowager's tea room.​

"I must have dozed off," she thought as she looked to see that everyone was just as they were before, but quickly she noticed the same small box clutched in her hand that she had seen on the pedestal in the vision.  "I've got to get back right away," the Moonie realized as she moved towards Arnie and the Dowager to say her goodbyes.