GHAMA-2, LAND OF MAGIC

"Do you catch your shrimps and other kind of seafood in the river? Asked Nancy pleasantly.

"What, surely not, the water is haunted by deadly spirits." Said the goblin. "The bits and pieces are no seafood, these are delicious grubs and snails."

"Never mind, just drop it," Said Nancy. "Tell me instead how we get pass the dragon."

"The dragon is a great philosopher; and it passes its time thinking about useless matter. If you can somehow find a question of great interest, it might become so busy thinking about it that it might forget the approach of a virgin girl. A kiss from a virgin girl will cancel the enchantment and the dragon will fly away. " Answered the goblin. "Now tell me all about you."

Nancy and Garry were still talking about their great adventure when Joan and the rest of us found them in the goblin's house.

"We were worrying about the two of you; even if Krzzzurr and Genamel told us that you were safe somewhere close by." Said Joan. "You should have told us before you wandered away."

"By the way, hi master Goblin, I am their mother."

"Who cares? That gave you no right to barge inside my house; haven't you been taught proper manners?" Said the goblin maliciously. For the goblin was a kind of tight lips joker and he liked to put people in uncomfortable state of mind."

Joan picked him up and kissed him on both cheeks.

"What? What? Kisses? Have you lost your mind? I never had that kind of affection in hundreds of years and now when you are gone I will need some more of it and be sorrow for my solitude."

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I can sense great danger lurking behind that door." Answered John. "Why do you want to go there?"

"It is an intuition," I said, "I know deep inside that I must go there, there is something there, something important for the success of our mission. I don’t want to go alone though, I need some help, and perhaps the reverend father and Booboo our powerful and resourceful wizard would come with me?”

"I will come too, said Tom."

"And me too." Said Nancy, Garry, Joan simultaneously.

"No," said John before everyone else started to ask for the same thing, "I can sense great danger behind that door and we can't afford to risk the lives of too many of us. Richard, Tom, Father O'Leary and Booboo will be going there, nobody else."

"But Richard, why risk your life again? Why should you take that unnecessary risk?" Asked Patricia worriedly. “I can sense something behind that door, that temple is a temple of doom.”

"Patricia and all of you my dear friends, I do have the gut feeling that there is something necessary to our survival behind that door and I got to go there and find it. I would not risk my life without a very good reason. We will be careful, I promise." I said.

Nancy went into Father O'Leary's arms and Laura to Tom's arms as Patricia came to kiss me.

"Be careful Booboo and protect Uncle Richard, Tom, and the Reverend." Said Garry as he hugged his new friend.

"With all my wizardry, I promise." Answered the Goblin seriously