One day in the deep
dark earth below fairyland, the Goblin King summoned forth one of
his favorite servants. She arrived, as always, with her dragonfly
wings buzzing, flying in a crazy, zig-zagging pattern with her
golden hair flying in all directions. After tracing an impossible
pattern in the air, one last zag landed her in front of the ugly
little king. He was always impressed at how well she managed to
curtsey while wearing a strait jacket.
"How would you like to be freed from
my service?" the King asked her.
"Quickly and easily," she
replied.
The Goblin King sighed. "Let me try
again," he said. "Would you like to be freed from my
service?"
Spindizzy blinked her mismatched eyes at
him a few times and then nodded repeatedly. "Oh, yes, oh,
yes, oh, yes, oh, yes, I would like that. I would like that more
than anything, I think."
The Goblin King smiled his frog-like
smile at her antics and she quickly stopped her nodding (though
her hair still bobbed "yes"). "That is," she
said, "If you want me to want to be freed from your service,
sir."