Ariel was soaking in the hot tub in the Wizard's room, relaxing after a long day of tormenting mortals in The Land.Ariel was soaking in the hot tub in the Wizard's room, relaxing after a long day of tormenting mortals in The Land. She was tired, and bored with dropping zombies and rats all over for mortals to stumble across. She was in need of a new and amusing diversion. She began looking over the mortals from her lofty vantage point above the forests and mountains, wondering if there was some unwitting fool she could hit with her potent Finger of Death, terminating their existence. Suddenly, she heard someone singing... she glanced around. How DARE a mortal sing in MY domain!" she thought, looking for the doomed perpetrator. There! There he was, in the main bedroom of the cottage! Cloaked in invisibility, Ariel transported herself to the main bedroom. Sprawled across the unmade bed lay a young and handsome mortal, bearded and clad in the garments of a wanderer. Ariel studied him closely, walking around the bed, wondering how any mortal could be so happy, and son unaware of her mighty presence. She tapped her foot impatiently... was he blind? Then she remembered her invisibility and incanted the proper spell. "Hello, oh wondrous witch!" the mortal smiled at her, as she took form in front of him. "Who might YOU be, mortal?" she asked, her voice cold, her eyes glaring down at him. He rose, towering over here, and enfolded her in a warm hug. "I am Kalthanas," he told her, "And you must be the fair Ariel!" Ariel disengaged herself from his embrace and gave him a steely stare. "hmmm," she thought, "The mortal has spunk! Maybe he needs to be taught a lesson in respect." Ariel quickly transported herself to the Royal Bedroom and explained her plans to the Dwarf Queen. |