Chapter 3

Puck's visit

"Talia, how are you liking your new home?" A white haired elf like being floated around me.

"This is not what I wished for!" I jabbed a finger at him.

"You asked me to make your sleep peaceful. So I did. It took a lot of work fixing what you had done." He smiled.

"I wanted to die! I wanted to never wake up again!" I growled.

"Listen, kid, I don't grant those kind of wishes." He became serious.

I frowned.

He looked around the room. "You must be grumpy since you haven't got a thing in this room to call your own."

"I don't want anything, Puck! I don't want to stay here." I told him.

"Of course no one would want to stay in such a sparse room. Let's see… Oh, yes, you had lots of books." He zapped the empty bookshelf and made it full. "And knick knacks." A mist spread across the room and covered the empty spaces with little trinkets. "You know this castle was terribly drafty back when Goliath still lived in it."

A personal blanket draped itself over my shoulders. "That should keep you warm. There's something else… I remember now." A stuffed fox appeared in my hands and some other stuffed animals went on the last open space. "Maybe you can have a little tea party while you're grounded."

"How old do you think I am?" I tossed the fox on the bed.

"That's no way to treat your old friend." Puck told me.

Before I could him that I wasn't a kid, he spoke again. "Cheer up, Tai. Three months will fly by and you'll be back to your mischief in no time. Tricking the old man and making your plans to escape."

"It's not mischief. I don't like it here!" I growled.

"You're a Xanatos, Talia. You just don't see it yet." He smiled.

"I would betray him for a cookie." I told him.

"Don't let him hear say that." Puck laughed.

"Whatever." I yawned.

"You must be tired from your daring escape attempt." He cooed and suddenly, I was in bed and all tucked with the toy fox under my arm.

"Puck!" I cried, sitting up. I was in my nightclothes.

"I mustn't stay any longer. I'd hate to see what a tired Xanatos does. Go to sleep, Talia." He said and I just wanted him to leave so I let him tuck me in again and he disappeared in a green mist.

I woke up and it was night time. I wondered what I would do with all this stuff Puck gave me. I texted Elisa and she came over with Goliath.

"Talia, it's been too long." The gargoyle smiled.

"I know, but technically I'm not supposed to see you guys for another three months." I hugged him.

"What's all this?" Elisa asked, looking around.

"That's the thing. Puck-" I started to explain.

"Puck the trickster?" Goliath asked.

"Yeah… I should start from the beginning." I explained to them my first encounter with Puck and Goliath was horrified. Elisa wasn't much better. "Anyway, I suddenly get these weird powers and I remember that dream I had so I summoned Puck somehow. Maybe he was waiting for me to connect the dots. He just gave me this stuff. He said I was grumpy because my "room" was sparse. I don't want it. But I can't let David see it so I was hoping you guys could take it away."

"We don't have anything to carry them." Elisa said.

"Oh, right." I summoned some bags.

"You weren't kidding about the powers." She picked a bag up and tugged on it.

We tried to clear the stuff away, but it kept going back to where it was. I could move things around, but they would not stay in the bags. I threw a book out the window after I got frustrated and it just came back.

"Talia, it seems like Puck bound these items to you." Goliath said.

"So, I can't get rid of them?" I asked.

"It doesn't seem likely." He hummed.

"Great." I groaned.

"I don't why Puck would want to you have all this." Elisa said.

"I don't know either. He insisted I was a Xanatos, too." I shrugged.

"How odd." Goliath growled.

"You guys should get going." I said.

"Sorry we weren't of more help." Elisa was picked up by Goliath.

"It's fine." I waved them off and they left.

"Talia-" Owen said through the door.

"I'm coming." I sighed and went to go eat.