and steering my head in the right direction. I then saw hidden under the stairs was a small creature with green skin. In fact, I could barely believe what I was seeing as he looked remarkably like you would imagine a goblin to look like. He was also making the same exact movements that the handsome and musclebound demon was making when feeling up the woman.
That’s when it dawned on me,
“Oh, you have got to be kidding me,” I said once Trice had let go of my cheeks. He grinned down at me and said,
“Nae everyone kin be as handsome as me, lass.” I rolled my eyes making him chuckle and went back to looking at the goblin who, despite this despicable act of deceit, seemed to have the incredible ability to create any illusion of himself that he was able to project like a real being.
“We have tae be careful we dinnae spook him, as they're nae normally easy tae catch,” Trice informed me, as I watched when a waitress went past him catching his attention and making him for the moment lose concentration. This made his projection drop its hold and become like a vacant ghost, making the woman slap his arm in outrage because he had stopped showering her with his attention.
This gave me an idea, seeing as the little green guy obviously had a weakness. So, I winked up at Trice and told him,
“Maybe I can help with that but first, you have to buy me a drink, handsome.” He gave me a questioning look in return that made me chuckle.
After this I told him my plan and let him buy two pints of something called soul water mead. Then I muttered six words I never thought I would ever hear coming from my mouth as I played a waitress, walking up to him…
“Time to bag me a goblin.”
Chapter Twenty-Nine
Chapter 29
Murderous Mistakes
“Well hey, aren’t you a cute thang,” I said wondering why the hell I had decided to put on a southern belle accent!? For starters, I didn’t need to disguise my voice and why I picked the voice I did, I had no idea. Either way my plan worked as the goblin saw me and started to look very excited that I had shown interest in him.
He wagged his over pronounced eyebrows at me, ones that were so hairy they looked like he had to comb them. His nose was big, his chin was over pronounced like his eyebrows, and his ears were the size of side plates. They were also full of hair that looked as though he had twisted it around in his fingers from habit.
His beady yellow eyes scanned the length of my body and it made him look like a little menace or sex pest. He was also wearing a little dark green suit with a blue shirt, green bowtie, and to complete the look, he wore a wrinkled top hat that looked as though it had accidentally been sat on by bigger demons quite a few times.
The sound of a slap coming from behind me and the cry of a woman's outrage made me turn to see the redhead was trying to knock some sense into her now vacant partner, who suddenly looked about as interested in her as someone does when staring at a painted wall waiting for it to dry. Needless to say, she didn't take too kindly to this, which was when the ghost of her partner simply turned around and walked out of the door.
I turned quickly to see what the goblin was doing, to catch his fingers making a walking motion through the air, telling me this was how this puppeteer had made him disappear. The female demon stomped her foot in outrage and the weight of such made a few tankard's spill to the floor on the table next to her. However, by the time she made her way across the pub to the bar she already had three of the demons show their interest, so I didn’t feel too badly for her.
“So, you think I'm cute, do you?” the goblin said, turning my attention back to him and I was surprised to find he had a sort of cockney accent.
“That depends, handsome,” I said in a strange way because halfway through I forgot the accent I had started this off with. He raised bushy eyebrow which in turn raised the rim of his hat that had been resting on them.
“On what exactly, how