Triumph Of The Dwarf King by Charley Case

Author:Charley Case [Case, Charley]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Fantasy
Publisher: LMBPN Publishing
Published: 2020-02-12T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seventeen

Driving at a reasonable pace, at least for Mila, it took twenty minutes to get to town. On the ride down the mountain, Finn sent one of the cards Hermin had given them off with a burst of magic, saying they needed to meet. Finn had written the name of the diner they had eaten earlier since he didn't know the name of anywhere else in Boulder.

Finn made sure that Penny was actually feeling better and not just pretending to keep them from worrying. When she finally growled at him, “are you sure you’re fine?” he knew she was on the mend for real.

They pulled into the diner’s small lot and saw Hermin and Garret sitting in a booth by the window, both of them stuffing pancakes into their mouths.

“Looks like they didn't waste any time,” Finn said, impressed Garret got the whole pancake in his mouth in one bite.

Finn climbed out of the car, Penny jumping to his shoulder, and headed for the diner's door, holding it open for Mila. “After you, darlin’.”

“Aw. Thanks, manther,” she said with a wicked smile.

Finn rolled his eyes, hoping the awful nickname would go away on its own. Penny laughing hysterically on his shoulder made him think he might have to come up with a new tactic.

“Oh, you two are hilarious,” Finn grumped, following Mila into the old-timey diner filled with red pleather seating and chrome everything else.

Hermin was facing the door and gave them a wave when they came in. “Over here.”

The two Huldu scooted over to make room in the booth, and Finn and Mila took the offered seats. Penny hopped off Finn's shoulder and snatched a piece of bacon from Garret’s plate.

“Hey!” he reached out to take the bacon back, but the growl Penny let out made him think again. “Okay, I’ll just order some more. No need to be rude.”

“You’ll have to forgive her,” Mila said in Penny's defense. “She was just about dead half an hour ago. She needs to replenish her magic.”

“Almost dead? What happened?” Hermin asked, stuffing another half a pancake in his mouth, dripping syrup down the corner of his beard.

“Uh, you have a little…” Mila pointed to the corner of her mouth, then slowly ran her finger towards her chin. “On second thought, you’re probably going to need to wash that out.”

Garret waggled a finger, and a thin stream of bubbles shot out and embedded themselves in Hermin’s beard, greedily sucking up the syrup before popping away to nothing.

“Well, that’s handy,” Finn said, envy rearing its ugly head. “I wish I knew that little trick.”

“A little anti-syrup spell I worked up about, oh…when was syrup invented?” Garret said. “Anyway, Penny was almost dead? What happened?”

Finn told the tale of the chase up the mountain and the subsequent fight and avalanche, then relayed the part about Penny being unconscious when they got back to the car.

“Oh, that avalanche was you?” Hermin sighed with relief. “I thought we had royally messed something up. Do you

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.