Grandmothers and Other Fearsome Encounters, page 8
part #4 of Princesses of the Pizza Parlor Series
"Feeling better?" Mistress Mehl asked, coming back into the room with a plate of fruit and biscuits, as well as a carafe of wine.
"No." Her head always pounded after a 'little moment,' as the gnomes politely put it.
Her fellow teacher poured her a glass of red wine, smelling vaguely of medicinal herbs, and after coughing out a fragment of feather, the gnome downed it gratefully. "So, who's this aunt of yours?" came the inevitable question.
She fought down another little moment, winning more through exhaustion than strength of will this time. "The thrice-blessed Seer of Snafala-Pagos, and living Avatar of the Goddess of Chance and Fate."
"Oh. I thought that gnomes didn't..."
"Exactly."
Mistress Mehl wisely left it at that, and the two of them enjoyed their wine in silence. Thoughts still ran hot through her brain, and she would stew on them for a long while to come. There was a lot more going on than she'd thought, a lot more than she knew, and that bothered her. To protect those girls, she was going to have to suck up her pride and figure out just what was happening.
But first, wine. A whole lot of wine.
To be continued in Princesses of the Pizza Parlor, episode 5: Boyfriends and Other Minor Annoyances
Maikel Yarimizu, Grandmothers and Other Fearsome Encounters
