A/N: Haha, I think I've finally convinced my friend of the beauty of the Chenzel...
Incommunicable Emotions
Chapter Twelve
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Glinda smiled a secret smile. "Indeed?"
Elphaba and Glinda sat at the heavy wooden table in the basement, eating a light breakfast. Chuffrey's former palace of pathetic prose replaced with a candle-lit love-nest, hidden from the world. Which was just the way the two wanted their life to be.
"My sweet, I found some of your husband's manuscripts last night," Elphaba said between bites of beef stew. "Dear Oz, they were dreadful. Sounded like a pubescent child that's just experienced his first nocturnal emission."
"Elphie, your mouth!" Glinda gasped, hiding her grin behind her hand. "But yes, they're terrible. I occasionally wondered whether or not he was retarded..."
She was interrupted by a heavy gong of the house's bells, which signalled a visitor at the door. Glinda heaved herself out of the trapdoor in the floor, racing to the front door, shouting, "I'm coming, ah, hold a moment, I'll be there!"
She pulled open the heavy wooden door to find a somber looking guardsman. He handed her a large green envelope, saluted, and walked briskly away.
Glinda opened the official-looking envelope with her teeth, meandering back to the trap door.
Dear Glinda the Good--
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz has requested that you grace him with your presence on the seventeenth of the month of April. Formal and emerald dress required.
Have an Emerald day!
Glinda sighed, throwing the envelope onto the table. "What do you make of this, Elphie?"
Elphaba glanced down at the letter. "Well, I expect he wants to talk about the late Sir Chuffrey, dearest. He'll have a few Gale Force gorillas stand beside you, intimidate you with their large--"
Elphie, grinning, ducked as Glinda aimed a chunk of bread at her face. "Nonetheless, I don't think it's anything to fret about. They'll have his private train pick you up, and you'll be there and back in a day. I shall catch up on my reading...allow my bruises to heal, I daresay."
Glinda grinned at Elphie's mock scowl. "I expect they'll be back by nightfall. You shouldn't accustom yourself to their absence, Elphie."
Elphie's grin turned wicked. "Well, perhaps we should add a few?" she scooped Glinda up in her arms, and nearly ran to the bed.