CHAPTER TWENTY ONE

Serve him? And the moon was made of green cheese but at least she set her face in something approaching serenity. At least she gathered her skirts, because sitting here required his serenity and grace right now for several reasons, the main one being if he’d accepted Snotra’s previous entanglements with serenity--grace too-- he wouldn’t be sporting a flock of sheep on his face in terms of smiling. But he was because he hadn’t. When what he really wanted to do was upend the table and take the witch by the throat.

There was the matter of the beatings, bondage and baying like wolves, after all. And Snotra. Troll of a troll's daughter, was he marrying a shrew?

Grimacing at the specimen who’d landed him in this mess—all right maybe it was himself?--he stood for a moment at the top of the ladder. He’d said ‘morning’ after all.

Morning it needed to be.