The Land of Grimney - The Illustrated Adventures of Cora Pearl, aged 12

Meadow slumps into a chair. She doesn't have her usual sparkle but she does have the presence of mind to pick out all the black and red jelly babies.....

Oh Word Wizard I don't know where to start, I feel such a fool now........

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Well, let me start by saying I love Philomena and Gwennie to bits. I think it is difficult for them to understand me sometimes. Just imagine how you'd feel if you had half of your mind taken away. I get confused sometimes, I'm not sure whether I am good or bad! I desperately want to be good and I am trying but..........well, I suppose we shouldn't interfere with nature

It's easy for them, they can fight and look after themselves but I get scared because I'm lost when it comes to fighting. Oh I know I have my dragons but..........I decided to practice shooting with a bow and arrow so I could be useful to them and.....I suppose you saw how that ended!

That's why I stick up for the knights, I'm scared they'll get fed up and leave us and.....I feel secure knowing they are there to protect us. Philomena says I am disrespectful to the knights but....I don't mean to be. I don't trust Elios because he is quite nasty to me when Philomena's not around, she doesn't see any of that.

I really have no intention of joining the pillar Bretheren but I say stupid things when I get frustrated, I can't help it. I will try not to threaten to join them again.....if they allow me back in the tavern. When Philomena took her protection spell away, I panicked and just ran..........that's how I ended up here. I did think about leaving Grimney and just getting as far away as possible ...........sometimes I don't know where I belong.

I worry about Jezebel too, she really does seem to have lost her darkness but.........maybe they are right about her, I can be a bit gullible sometimes..........

I don't want to stay here because I'm aware I'm stopping you from doing your writing. I don't want to go to the black pillar because those monsters would just eat someone like me alive and.......I don't really want to go back to the tavern because..........I just keep causing problems for the tavern folk which isn't really fair I know after.....they've been so good to me.

Philomena says I act like a spoilt child and I suppose she's right but.........she just doesn't understand what I'm going through, nobody does. I'm not looking for sympathy, I'm just trying to explain how I feel and why I act the way I do. I really hate myself sometimes.

People keep saying I'm jealous of Philomena and, in a way I suppose they're right. She has her man standing by her when times get tough, who have I got? I learned that Morton is away having a nice seaside holiday while I'm struggling with.......everything. That really hurt me because I have never been to the seaside, I would love to go, why did he go off without me? I don't think he loves me, he just plays with me when it suits him.

I am so sorry Word Wizard, I'm taking your time up when you should be writing......What are you writing by the way?

Anyway, thank you for the tea and jelly babies, I will leave you in peace now........

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Jezebel says that the Black Pillar is draining away the evil from the people who stay there. Everyone doubts that she is telling the truth but Kursk does seem to be weakening. He is challenging people to fight duels one by one rather than organising group battles. He was also said to be losing faith in the bretheren after just one of his necromancers was killed.Maybe the pillar has its own devious plans and the ones who dwell there do not realise that their power is being drained....that's what Jezebel seems to think anyway.

Yes please, I LOVE jelly babies. Do you not eat anything else? I could bake you a cake? My cakes are noted throughout Grimney......

I didn't understand that Word Wizard....what is your nickname?

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Meadow Goblinglitter sits and watches the dark, mysterious man hunched over his writing, he is totally engrossed in the task.She looks enviously at the pen clutched in his hand.

She rips the head off an orange jelly baby with her teeth...the black and red ones have all long gone. A sadistic smile spreads across her face as she looks at the decapitated body....Tanza would be proud.

'I like it here' she says 'it is so tranquil after the hustle and bustle of the tavern. You really need someone here to bake for you and look after the house' she continues, then blushes at the realisation of the implication of the words she has just spoken out loud. Meadow pictures herself in the kitchen, baking bread,or should that be burning bread, for her wizard while he beavers away at his desk creating, and destroying...make believe little worlds.

Word Wizard glances up from his work momentarily and looks at the strange girl with orange jelly round her mouth. She catches him looking over and smiles shyly. She wonders what goes on behind those smouldering eyes, does he have any idea how she feels?

She blows air into the bag and pops it showering the table with sugary jelly bits. The wizard looks startled then shakes his head and goes back to his love...........

Meadow Goblinglitter throws the bag into the fire and watches the yellow glow as it disintegrates.
'If it was Philomena sitting here,she mutters quietly, Word Wizard would not be able to concentrate on his writing. He would throw that stupid paper in the fire, he would throw his strong arms around her and kiss her passionately, he would not be able to resist her charms'...........

But what would Meadow do if the wizard threw his paper on to the fire and came towards her? Meadow goes weak at the thought......then she suddenely remembers Morton, dragging the tin bath down the stairs at her party, diving into the tub full of beer.......she laughs out loud at the memory.............

Word Wizard stirs impatiently at the interruption, sighs then carries on scribbling. He is totally oblivious to the fire burning within meadow, the longing........................

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I've heard some put downs in my time...........Very Good Wiz, however, it did take you some time.......
Grimnian is coming here? Do you mind if I stick around and meet him? Then I really must get back to the tavern, I would love to stay here for ever but I just remembered I left a knife in the fork drawer at the tavern.........

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Actually Word Wizard I've been thinking, I am going to return to the tavern. It's been..........interesting staying at your house but I am really missing my friends.......

Thanks for the sugar high and for lending me an ear. I have to go and eat humle pie .....again!

I would love to meet Grimnian and I bet Gwennie and Philomena would too, can we all come over when he comes to visit? pretty please?...........

Thank you again for letting me stay.

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