Meanwhile, back at the camp ...
BeeGee thunk with his pea-sized brain. He thunk and thunk until he was blue in the face. That seemed to help. When his face turned blue, it made his brain swell ... and it gave him a swell idea: "Find a safer place to practice magic."
"Until I can poof without hesitating or stuttering, I need to find a place that won't mind stinking to high heavens when I make a mistake." I mumbled to myself as I climbed (booboo-first) out of Lynn's pocket. She would have seen and heard me if she wasn't half out-of-it and slightly distracted by the commotion of the fighters leaving in such a hurry.
Polgara was dousing the fire with water and Hypatia was grabbing everyone's belongings up, using a cape as a make-shift sack to hold everything.
I headed for the woods. On the way I found a nice soft leaf to take with me. "This might help clean up some of the mess I'm about to make" I though approvingly to myself. Although the leaf was twice my size, it dragged nicely if I walked backward and leaned waaaaaay over to get it started moving.
Several minutes later I found a suitable spot and decided to try the poofoop combo spell several times. The gentle breeze kept my nose from turning green, but the ground was getting a little slippery around me. That's when a rabbit dashed into my little outdoor laboratory/lavatory. I must admit that the antics it displayed were worthy of an Imp, as it tried to stop with its front end, dart with its rear end, hold its breath from the smell, and scream with fear, all at the same time. It was obvious that the rabbit had been fleeing from something, discovered my mess, and was caught between an escape and an ambush.
It made me chuckle. That raised my spirits. That gave me hiccups. That made me [color:"yellow"]Poof![/color]
"Tada!" I exclaimed. The rabbit was either unimpressed, or uncaring, because it continued its confused antics. I didn't have the heart to scold it for overdoing the gag. Besides, in my poofed state, I could now backtrack to whatever/whoever had spooked the rabbit and my curiousity was roused.
[color:"pink"]Foop![/color] "Yep! That worked, too! Yippeee!"
Last edited by BeeGee; 25/05/03 05:25 PM.
