The Dark Lord Bert 2 by Chris Fox

Author:Chris Fox [Fox, Chris]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Chris Fox Writes LLC
Published: 2021-01-30T22:00:00+00:00

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Following Bert

Kit enjoyed the hike into the woods where her character had been born even as she dreaded arriving in Humboldt County. Lush evergreen trees, redwoods, and flavors of pine carpeted a vast expanse of land, the entirety of the region on the opposite side of the Moist Mountains, which had proven quite well named.

Travel had been easy so far. Most of the annoyances she’d accumulated in traveling with her party had been White’s doing. Without him and Crushstuff, they managed to go an entire day without killing anything. Or littering.

Nutpuncher spent most of his time roaming a bit ahead of her, and exploring the forest, as the monk never seemed to run out of energy. That left her in blessed solitude, and for the first time in what felt like forever she took on fox form and ran through the undergrowth.

Ferns batted playfully at her face as she ate up the forest floor, just another woodland creature that would draw no one’s attention. Her sprint carried her onto a game trail that paralleled a stream, and a few trout even splashed in the water.

Kit bounded over it, then raced along the stream bank as she surged after the faintly glowing trail her spell still revealed. Boberton had passed this way not one day ago, as the occasional large paw print in the mud attested.

The prints came closer together, suggesting the dog had broken into a sprint. Kit galloped beside the trail, which led to a towering redwood. The scent of chocolate billowed from windows a quarter of the way up the tree, laced with a sharper scent, pungent and all too familiar.

“Wow, that smells really good.” Nutpuncher’s head popped out of a nearby fern. “Do you think they’ll give us some?”

Kit rippled back into elf form, then mounted the first step spiraling up to the front door. “They’ll happily feed us. Just a warning…be careful how much you eat. A single Lembass cookie can feed you for a whole day.”

Nutpuncher hopped from step to step behind her, and she wished she could relax into the adventure and just have fun. The gnome got there so effortlessly, the way she’d used to do.

Kit could make out singing as they approached, or humming to be more accurate. She reached the door just as it opened, and a blond elf maiden that could have passed for her cousin blinked out at her. “Oh, hello. Please…come in.”

The woman moved away from the door, and gestured at the interior of the tree house. Two other elves were working with dough and laying out trays of cookies for the oven, while the woman carried an axe that looked like it might be used for firewood.

The maiden wore a tie-dyed shirt with rainbow patterns, and the type of tinted sunglasses that had become iconic in the 1960s. Kit sighed, but under her breath, and tried not to fault whomever had created the “high elves”.

Behind the woman a still smoking bong sat on the table next to a half eaten tray of cookies.

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