about Fluffy's safety. I would have taken him back to his own world years ago if I knew how. By the time I realized it wasn't right to keep him as a pet he was too big to travel through the hopscotch court."
Jenny turned towards me and buried her face in my chest.
"I love him, Jake," she said between sobs. "The moment I saw him I knew I've needed a dragon all my life. Don't you think I know what I've done?"
"Meep, meep, meep," Fluffy told us in an annoyed tone.
"He's telling you he was there too and it was his choice," I explained. I've always understood Fluffy's meeps.
"I know," Jenny said. "I sort of understand him too."
"What's done is done," I said, sighing at the unfairness of it all. Fluffy folded his wings on the other side of me and put his head on my lap so we could cuddle him.
Being a wizard with responsibilities is sometimes no fun at all. I suppose though, that I have to be thankful for the friends I have.
Chapter Five : Wizard's Ring
I knew I shouldn't have come to this place, but I just couldn't resist it. Fortunately, it was very cold, so I knew I could get away with wearing my large grey duffle coat with its massive protective hood. There were only a few people who might recognize me in any case and they were mainly girls who would be too busy looking at all the pomp and circumstance.
I had returned to Salice to watch the annual reconfirmation of their king and queen. The kingdom of Salice on the continent of Mystrang was the place where I had given a wise-man a handful of lucky stones and he used them to usurp the rightful rulers. As a result, the people of Salice had been confined to dungeons for the last few years when they hadn't been working their socks off to keep said wise-man in comfort.
Not surprisingly, I wasn't the most popular wizard in this particular place, even though I had returned and rescued the imprisoned people. The locals took the view I should have been more careful in whom I entrusted powerful magic objects. I have to admit they might have a point.
Princess Esmeralda told me this ceremony would be taking place in two weeks when I left Salice to return to Earth. Esmeralda and I met in the town when I first visited. I still carry a fading bruise on my face from where she slapped me.
Given this was always a big celebration in Salice and would be even bigger this year since everybody was glad to be free, I figured I should come and join in. This had nothing to do with the fact that Jenny wasn't currently speaking to me, of course.
It had been two days since I introduced Fluffy to Jenny. They bonded on the spot in a way I still found disconcerting. The upshot was she demanded to know exactly how to find and get into the Bat Cave. I refused because she'd already exposed Fluffy to danger and that was within minutes of meeting him.
We had an argument and she refused to wear the blindfold she wore when I took her to the cave. That was the moment I discovered I can cast sleeping spells. It was when she woke up a short time later by our bicycles that she decided she was never going to speak to me again.
Which is why I was in Salice. I'm used to living a solitary existence, but when Fluffy turned his back on me in the Bat Cave I knew I had to get away from Earth and Salice was the only place I knew on another world about to have a party.
The party in question looked pretty spectacular. The streets were filled with stalls and decked out with streamers and garlands of every size and color. It really was a street party among friends, people moved from being customers for beer and wine to serving the suckling pig and roast beef. Children ran with wild abandon and barely a minute went by without fireworks bursting across the night sky.
I watched the reconfirmation without getting anywhere near to the stage. Pretty well everybody on that stage could recognize me if I got too close. The king and queen met me after the counter-revolution. Apparently, the king had once
Jenny turned towards me and buried her face in my chest.
"I love him, Jake," she said between sobs. "The moment I saw him I knew I've needed a dragon all my life. Don't you think I know what I've done?"
"Meep, meep, meep," Fluffy told us in an annoyed tone.
"He's telling you he was there too and it was his choice," I explained. I've always understood Fluffy's meeps.
"I know," Jenny said. "I sort of understand him too."
"What's done is done," I said, sighing at the unfairness of it all. Fluffy folded his wings on the other side of me and put his head on my lap so we could cuddle him.
Being a wizard with responsibilities is sometimes no fun at all. I suppose though, that I have to be thankful for the friends I have.
Chapter Five : Wizard's Ring
I knew I shouldn't have come to this place, but I just couldn't resist it. Fortunately, it was very cold, so I knew I could get away with wearing my large grey duffle coat with its massive protective hood. There were only a few people who might recognize me in any case and they were mainly girls who would be too busy looking at all the pomp and circumstance.
I had returned to Salice to watch the annual reconfirmation of their king and queen. The kingdom of Salice on the continent of Mystrang was the place where I had given a wise-man a handful of lucky stones and he used them to usurp the rightful rulers. As a result, the people of Salice had been confined to dungeons for the last few years when they hadn't been working their socks off to keep said wise-man in comfort.
Not surprisingly, I wasn't the most popular wizard in this particular place, even though I had returned and rescued the imprisoned people. The locals took the view I should have been more careful in whom I entrusted powerful magic objects. I have to admit they might have a point.
Princess Esmeralda told me this ceremony would be taking place in two weeks when I left Salice to return to Earth. Esmeralda and I met in the town when I first visited. I still carry a fading bruise on my face from where she slapped me.
Given this was always a big celebration in Salice and would be even bigger this year since everybody was glad to be free, I figured I should come and join in. This had nothing to do with the fact that Jenny wasn't currently speaking to me, of course.
It had been two days since I introduced Fluffy to Jenny. They bonded on the spot in a way I still found disconcerting. The upshot was she demanded to know exactly how to find and get into the Bat Cave. I refused because she'd already exposed Fluffy to danger and that was within minutes of meeting him.
We had an argument and she refused to wear the blindfold she wore when I took her to the cave. That was the moment I discovered I can cast sleeping spells. It was when she woke up a short time later by our bicycles that she decided she was never going to speak to me again.
Which is why I was in Salice. I'm used to living a solitary existence, but when Fluffy turned his back on me in the Bat Cave I knew I had to get away from Earth and Salice was the only place I knew on another world about to have a party.
The party in question looked pretty spectacular. The streets were filled with stalls and decked out with streamers and garlands of every size and color. It really was a street party among friends, people moved from being customers for beer and wine to serving the suckling pig and roast beef. Children ran with wild abandon and barely a minute went by without fireworks bursting across the night sky.
I watched the reconfirmation without getting anywhere near to the stage. Pretty well everybody on that stage could recognize me if I got too close. The king and queen met me after the counter-revolution. Apparently, the king had once
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