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The first one spoke, “Good evening sir, sorry to bring you up here like this, but when we found out there were goblins living so close, we needed to speak to you as soon as possible!”
“I
am Herbert. This is Gabriel, Bill and
Bob my sons, we are the Bogmuncher family. My wife Bertha is in the kitchen.”
Drake
was speechless! He looked around at them, they were all so hairy and all wore
brownish tunics and trousers. Their trousers only reached their knees and were
all ripped. They all wore big heavy boots.
Herbert
only had one eye open, the other was closed up. They seemed friendly enough,
for now!
Drake
spoke, “My name is Drake, I am part of the Wah Wah tribe from under the ground,
but my girlfriend and I have made a home for us above ground in the hedgerow
where you took me from.”
“Are you hungry Drake?” asked Bill.
“No
thanks, we have eaten this evening”. Bob said, “We were just about to have
supper, come and sit with us.”
“OK!”
Drake said sheepishly.They sat around a huge cauldron of stew.
“What we on tonight mother?” asked
Herbert.
“Badger
and weasel tonight my dear!” she replied proudly. As they sat there eating
Drake noticed their ears, they were very large, the mothers were a little
smaller but the father and the boys were so big he couldn’t take his eyes off
them.“What you looking at goblin?” Herbert growled, “Do
you want some, just speak up if you want some, it’s really tasty!” “No
thanks” replied Drake and soon averted his gaze from their ears.
“In
case you were wondering, we don’t eat Goblins anymore, there’s only us here
now. When we were a large tribe and food was scarce we had no choice, but not
anymore!” After
the meal Herbert poured his heart out to Drake. They didn’t mean him any harm,
they just wanted to find Gabriel’s wife, who was a goblin, and he had heard
that she had a child and that it was Gabriel’s. They needed to keep the
bloodline of Hobgoblins going because after Herbert and his sons, there were no
more. Hobgoblins can only give birth twice in their lives. Mother only had
Gabriel. The twins, Bill and Bob’s parents were killed in a feud many years
before. Then there were no more, even though Gabriel’s child was half goblin it
was better than nothing, especially if the child could possibly be female. She
could mate with a hobgoblin, and then maybe, there was hope for the future of
hobgoblins in the world.
Herbert
continued he had heard there was a family of hobgoblins on Bacon fell and one
far away on Hellhaven, but beside that, there were no more. “Now I understand” Drake said. “But I am not a hobgoblin and neither is my girlfriend Donnella, I don’t
know of any within our tribe, to be honest.”Gabriel continued, “My wife definitely lived in your
tribe, and I am certain she went back there after we fell out. Well we didn’t
really fall out, I didn’t fit into those little houses of yours and she wanted
to be near her friends and family so there was no solution.” “You seemed to give up really easily on that issue Gabriel, if you don’t
mind me saying so.” Drake said.“She wouldn’t eat meat,” said Mother, “That was
the real reason.”
“Let’s not get back into that argument again.”
Herbert retorted. “Can we just come and
look at your girlfriend and check she isn’t a hobgoblin?” Bill piped up quite
cheekily.Enjoy
Polly x
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