Chapter 4

It was Phefferman!

The nasty old sneer had come back to his ugly features. He smiled devilishly at everyone except for Mipsy whome he glowered at. Mipsy gave out a squeak and ran behind Talinia. Phefferman pulled out his wand and pointed it threateningly and the unlikely trio. Talinia, unshaken by the presence of Phefferman crossed her arms carelessly and looked at the male mage. Phefferman walked over to his now muddy cloak, picked it up and caressed it lovingly. After a while he picked up the cloth to his eyelashes and blinked so that the lashes brushed the cloth. He felt the cloth so lovingly that it looked like he was in love with it.

“My, my-my precious!” he uttered while drooling over the cloth

Talinia looked disgusted, Mipsy looked horrified and Velm looked fascinated. It appeared the other witnesses in the entrance hall either retreated quickly or was suffering from heart attack.

Phefferman gathered up his belongings and swept of the entrance hall in a hurry.

“Well that was some weirdness, do you know him dear?” asked an old maid that had been sweeping the floor.

"Never heard of him." returned Talinia sharply "Of course, this is a small world after all and I may have encountered him once unknowingly on a unlucky day." With that she sweeped her two younger friends to the side and spoke to them.

"Listen up you two, go to your room and pack up quickly. I don't want to get into more trouble."

"What if Phefferman brings back his friends?"

"Friends? The day Phefferman gets friends will be the day I lose my hearing. And anyways if they did I can always hold them off. Not hard to fight off a few drunkards anyways.

Mispsy laughed and Velm smiled a shy smile. "Go hurry up and pack!" With she pushed them towards their room and they ran shouting with laughter towards it. Such innocent kids, Talinia thought, It's sure not fair that they have to grow up in this kind of environment.