After following my nose for several days and nights, I finally found the Imp Realm. It was empty, but there was a note on the door that said:
[color:"yellow"]Out of business. Please direct all inquiries to the firm of LLR&J-S, Ltd. Inc.[/color]
I knocked on the door anyway, hoping that perhaps a caretaker had been appointed. I wasn't disappointed, for the appointed appointee peeked through the shutters and pointed to the aforementioned note on the door.
I waved and grinned. When the appointee recognized that I was (and still am) an imp, he opened the door and gave me a querilous look.
I shrugged my shoulders and asked, "May I come in?"
He opened the door and stepped back to let me in, following my every move closely with his eyes. The door was quickly closed and locked behind me before he deigned to speak: "Yer pardon, sirrah, but I was operatin' under the distinct impression that all imps had left this planet some fifty-seven years ago. Are ye back, then?"
"I've only just arrived this fortnight" I assured him, "and as far as I know, I am the only imp on this planet, if your information is current and correct. If not, then I am on a quest to find the imp or imps responsible for the deaths of a wife and children of a man I recently met."
"You're the only imp on the radar," he said, as he showed me a radar scope. The four-dimensional rotating light beam showed a holographic image of the entire planet, and only a single blip lit up on each sweep: Me.
"I'll take my leave of you now, good sir. I have completed my quest, although not precisely as I would have anticipated. Nonetheless, I thank you for the information and bid you good day." I exitted the door I had entered through, and turned my nose in the direction of the Double Ravens Castle.
My return to the castle was much quicker than my exodus had been, due to a tailwind. When the castle came into view, I descended to the ground and began my stealthy approach. As I sneaked up to the castle gates, I remembered thinking that someone was watching me.
"But, that's impossible," I thought, "because I am [color:"orange"]poof[/color]-ed."
