She asked our young hero of a question,
"Are you worthy of this sword?", he bowed before The Lady of The Lake, and stated,
"I am certainly worthy of your sword." The reply, with a shake from her head as bubbling water swirled around her waist was,
"You are not worthy of the sword young fool...", she turned to one of the not so valiant gnomes who were hiding in the bushes nearby who stated, quite abruptly,
"Give the sword to ME...I deserve it..."
Again the Lady shook her head and said with grief,
"No you are not worthy either..." This she looked upon the last two adventurers, the annoying girl and of course Halendro The Great. Again she spoke the words to them,
"Who of you is worthy of this sword..." Their reply, was almost the same for both of the pair. They both immediatley replied to the Lady of the Lake.
"Give it to her." said the elf performer.
"Give it to him." rolled the words off the girl's tongue as her finger pointed in
"The Great One's" direction, The Lady turned toward Hal as he said,
"Why the hell would I want that beat up old thing? You may have it." as his hands wavered back towards the girl. In exasperation the lady spoke again
"Is not one of you here worthy of the sword?"
Halendro finally came up with the words and stated in his soft elfin tongue,
"Lady I am not worthy of this sword give it to my companion." The girl promptly accepted saying that she was worthy of it, and the sword was quickly handed over to Halendro by the lady instead.

Now that day Halendro and the girl went off to look for firewood, and our young hero wandered off. Soon he came upon a rather odd looking wizard with his wand in hand.
"Good wizard, who art thou?" our hero asked eagerly.
"I, am The Magus! Wizard of the great! I can generate incredible wealth!" he began to rant a rave.
"I, with my trusty Wand of Wonder, of course can create all wealth and power! Just watch!" and with that the lunatic wizard raised his wand. He muttered some ancient incantation, and suddenly an enormous pile of gem stones landed on him, a few moments later the drowning wizard pulled himself out of the gems breathing heavily.
"See! Ha! Believe me now? Ehh?!" and our young hero was soon watching this crazy wizard. The Magus did a similar thing again, yet nothing happened. Little did we know it but in a nearby town square, an enormous lightning bolt blasted the mayor right off of the porch. And he landed, quite dead. Of course this mayor had once been an elven mage, who had once fumbled with some of his magic as a beginner mage and, to quite some humor had become a dwarf, a race unable to use magic.
"And now I shall kill you!" concluded Magus.
"Erm, stand back! I have uhh... catnip! And I'm not afraid to use it!" our young hero said in his own defence, slowly backing away from this very powerful wizard, who was still puzzled at why nothing happened the second time he used his Wand of Wonder, (to his knowledge nothing happened though.)

Italicized Text = Narrator Speaking

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