Chapter 81: Old hopes.

"Goglina, dear, please bring me another cup of tea," Agatha, the old woman who had taken Goglina in some days ago, asked of her. The female goblin rushed to do just that.

Agatha was blind.

When Goglina found her, the old woman was trying to clean. Something in the goblin felt pity for her, and Goglina took the rag from her hands and helped her go to a chair.

The old woman had some joys left to her, even in her blind state, but not many. They were all simple ones. Like, the cup of tea before having breakfast, or the sunbathing time after lunch when she would go and sit on a chair before the cottage.

Goglina had come clean about being a goblin but hadn't told Agatha why she was not with her tribe. Agatha never asked. There was a hunter, one of Agatha's grandchildren, who came by every day to bring the old woman food. Goglina made sure to have a cloth around her throat so that the rune was not visible.