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Atime with powrie crossbow thieffrom shadow to shadow about the occupied town "A call to arhts on a pair of goblins taking some rest on the piles of last season&039;s hay just inside Yosi Hoosier&039;s barn One of thes of noxious ser whispered Off he went, silent and quick as a hunting cat, taking a wide circuit of the barn, slipping into the structure - as he had so often in the last few years - through a broken board far in the back Soon he was crouched be-hind the hay within a few feet of the oblivious goblins He waited patiently for nearly ten an loading fresh weed

Roger was good atfires - another of his many talents He moved back so he wouldn&039;t be heard, then struck flint to steel over a few pieces of straw

Then he crept back and pushed the straw in carefully, in the gen-eral area where the sone, back out of the barn before the first wisps of soblin pair

The hay went up like a giant candle, and how the goblins howled!

"Attack!" some yelled "Eneate and saw their cooblin with a lit pipe still stuck in its oblins out with the woodcutting prisoners did not go in to fight fire, but their attention was diverted enough for Roger to easily sca to a stop be-hind the large oak that Mrs Kelso was halfheartedly chopping She let out a chirp when he peeked around, but he quickly hushed her and those nearby

"Hearhalfway around, his hands i to work on her shackles while he locked Mrs Kelso&039;s gaze with his own "Now stand still! They mean to kill you I heard them"

"You cannot take her out or they&039;ll kill us all!" one rowl and an order to "Work!" frouards

"You must take us all, then," deer replied "But they won&039;t kill you, they won&039;t even blaer hushed hiet her free, I will put her shackles about that sapling," he explained "Give us a five-count to get away, then here is what you do"

"Stupid Grioblin guards rely Kos-kosio ain&039;t to be giving us extra food tonight"

The other laughed "Might that we&039;ll be eating Grioblins spinning They saw the prisoner line, tools thron, the people struggling oblins yelled, charging up to the nearest hu her loith a shield rush " &039;Ere now!"

"Deer had in-structed them "Demon dactyl!"

"He turned her into a tree!" one wouards looked on curiously, even scratched their heads, dumb-struck, for the two lines of prisoners - and there did seeth of the chains, and were both anchored by a soblin croaked

"Blimey," said another

All the attention of the enca fire in the barn to the bustle at the forest&039;s edge Many goblins ran over, along with the powrie host, led by their ulne

"What&039;d ye see?" the powrie demanded of the ht and was now closest to the sapling

"Demon," the man sputtered

"Demon?" Kos-kosio echoed skeptically "And what&039;d the de winged shadow I I didn&039;t stay nearby to watch He it turned poor Mrs Kelso into a tree!"

"Mrs Kelso?" Kos-kosio Begulne repeated a couple of times, until he remembered the woman and the fate he had planned for her Had Bestesbulzibar, the demon dactyl, the lord of the dark arain with hi over his operation?

A shudder coursed up the powrie&039;s spine as he reoblin nae, Bestesbulzibar had ripped the skin frooblin while it remained alive to watch and to feel That hen Kos-kosio had been put in charge, and the powrie had known fro that this was a tentative co to re had been there all along Had Bestesbul-zibar really returned, or was it a trick? the ever-suspicious poondered

"Search all the area!" Kos-kosio ordered hisabout, the powrie roared even louder, pro death to any who did not hustle

"And yerself, hu," Kos-kosio said to theaxe and cut Mrs Kelso down!"

Thea ser realized he was taking a chance in co back near the town, but with Mrs Kelso safely on her way to Tomas and the others, he simply couldn&039;t resist the sport of it all He relaxed cooblins wandered right below hi and no others were in the i into the saet to Mrs Kelso in the first place

Then he watched contentedly The humans were back to work - the two ether - and the powries had returned to the town, leaving a handful of goblins to guard the humans, and another dozen or so of the nervous wretches searching the woods

Yes, it was a perfectly wonderful situation, Rogerlife had he found so much fun