Chapter 35 - Muthos and Askella (1/2)
An old hunch back troll with bald head and side hair was using a staff to walk around as he scratched his long dark orange beard while finding a seat to take a nap in his humble cave dwelling at the bottom of a rocky plateau just within sight of the Rock Troll capital where he used to advise the last king before he was thrown out due to giving warnings about his whore wife Ulla which ended up coming true.
Inside the dwelling, there was a lot of furniture decorated with colorful blankets and comfy seats that were not made of rocks like so many other homes.
The open kitchen was filled with boiling things of various colors in flasks and beakers, it was more of a lab than a kitchen at this point.
As the old troll was leaning back in the recliner chair smacking his lips in a lazy relaxed manner getting ready to fall asleep when one of the beakers exploded startling him awake as he quickly sat up yelling- ”Dang blast it woman, can't you find somewhere else to do your experiments.”
An even older looking female troll came out with the same bald head with white side hair that fell to her shoulders came out of the bedroom screaming back- ”And can't you find a new job or hobby or something, all you do is sleep all day, it's about time you found something else to do Muthos.”
Muthos just snorted as he sat back down and closed his eyes only to hear more complaining coming from his wife.
”Would you look at this, another failure, I don't know if I'll ever get this right, what to do, what to do.” talking to herself as she cleaned up the mess.
Muthos growing irritated said- ”Can't you do that quieter?”
Receiving a glare he couldn't see with his eyes closed she said- ”I don't know maybe you would like to sleep somewhere else from now on?”
Muthos ignored her idle threat as he tried to drift back into dreamland only to again be interrupted by a loud buzzing sound.
Without opening his eyes he called out- ”Hey would you stop that.” not receiving a response he called out again- ”Askella what are you doing now.” squinting one of his eyes open to see her staring blankly towards the rock capital with her eyes magically shining.
Worried he got up calling out to her again as he cautiously approached- ”Askella, Askella, what's wrong?”
Askella's eyes reverting back to there natural brown color looked at her worried husband with a smile- ”I'm fine dear... (losing the smile as she turned serious.)... but I'm afraid the capital isn't, a detection spell I set up was destroyed, though he underestimated me in thinking that would be enough to hide his presence from me... (sighing)... Grundor is back.”