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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Inez Hull" data-source="post: 568695" data-attributes="member: 5114">II: A Disgraced DemonIn the pleasant shadow of a spreading chestnut tree, in a wide meadow blessed by the last rays of a balmy spring day a sullen shape huddled back from the Disneyesque landscape, grumpily watching as the sun set with a blaze of glory behind a distant range of picture postcard mountains. In the tree, above the creature’s head, roosting birds cooed at the day’s end, their happy warbling mingling with the babbling of a little brook that meandered by the misshapen creature’s gnarled feet. A playful otter splashed out of the crystal waters, lolloped over those same feet and headed back to the water. The beast howled indignation and clumsily kicked out at the otter; the sudden ferocity of the kick shook loose two smaller ugly shapes from the dark being's knobby shoulders. They screeched in pain as their feet touched the spongy turf“Hurt, hurt, hurt,” squealed one of the imps.“Please let us back up, master,” pleaded the second hopping painfully from one foot to the other.“When are we gonna leave this hateful place?” wheedled the first imp.“Me know,” the second imp smirked. “Never. We is banished forever!”The great-eared beast roared and swatted the two imps with a mighty blow, burying them to their necks in the ground. They screeched as if scorched by hot coals, then bounded out, scrabbling up over each other to avoid the turf.“Damned imps! Silence! Your whining causes me more pain than all this place’s blasted wholesomeness!”“But it hurts us so,” pleaded the first imp.“That’s because you’re a nasty, spiteful little creature and this land of our banishment is meant to drive us to the edge of insanity!” the beast roared.Somewhere above them, a nightingale welcomed the rising moon with its delightful song. The dark trio held their hands to their ears and groaned.“But it not our fault no-one’s frightened of you anymore, whined the imps.“Frightened.” the beast boomed. “I’ll give you frightened!” he roared, pausing only to brush a pair of playful squirrels who were depositing chestnuts inside his flaring trunk.“Harrumph. I’ve had a word in the Bespectacled One’s ear. Already dark, and needlessly convoluted plots are being set in motion. Soon minions will call for me, then we shall depart this place and visit terrible revenge on those incompetent swines that doomed us to this misery. I’ll frighten them!!!”Caraxus bellowed impotently as a bambi fawn gently nuzzled against his leg.</blockquote>

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