Part 9 In which Lilly’s mouth gets her into trouble again

Players:

Marlot
A witch who is very proud of what she has done

Golem
A cheerful golem who is happy to learn

Lilly
A girl who needs to learn to watch her tongue


Knock, Knock, Knock

“Come in Lilly.”

Marlot looked up from her book and laughed at the golem who was the one who had invited Lilly in, and she was still laughing when Lilly came in looking confused.

“It worked!” she said when she saw the golem. “Hello, I’m Lilly.” She sounded almost seductive and held her hand out to him as though she wanted him to kiss it. He looked at her confused, his head once again tilted to the side.

“Hi Lilly.” He looked at her hand and then bent over and licked it.

“Golem!” Marlot yelled, still laughing, “What are you doing?”

“Jinx does that when I reach out for him.”

“That is because for some reason Jinx thinks you are delicious.”

“That’s because he is,” Marlot heard Lilly say under her breath; out loud she said “Oh my goodness Marlot, he is adorable.” She then took his hand and shook it.

“That is what you should have done,” Marlot told the golem.

“Thank you Marlot.”

“You’re welcome golem. You have to explain everything to him at this point,” she told Lilly. “He is still learning.”

“I like learning.” The golem said with his lopsided smile. Lilly almost seemed to melt on the spot and for some reason this aggravated Marlot.

“And you’re doing a fine job, conversation is the first step.” She ruffled the golem’s green hair as she walked past him and took the basket from Lilly.

“Why is his hair green?” Lilly whispered to her not letting go of the basket and pulling Marlot close.

“I think it is because I used branches from my enchanted apple tree to make him.”

“Interesting.” Lilly let go of the basket and Marlot laid out the lunch she had brought.

“Lunch,” the golem said happily, smiling at Marlot.

“Very good. Will you get some water for us? Use three cups from the cupboard over the sink.”

The golem got up and filled three cups with water and then just stood at the sink. “Golem, will you bring them over to the table and set them in front of our chairs.” Lilly was already sitting in her normal seat as was Marlot, an extra plate had been set up in front of the chair he had sat in the day before. Marlot was trying as hard as she could to make everything as easy on her golem as she could.

He walked over and looked at the table, his green eyebrows were knitted together in thought and finally he sat all three cups down in the middle of the table.

“What are you doing?” Lilly said patronizingly.

“Lilly, be nice. Golem, you should put one cup down in the top right corner of each of our plates.”

“Thank you Marlot.”

“I’m here to help.” The golem picked up the cups and placed them where Marlot had indicated.

The rest of the lunch went rather well, Marlot explained things to the golem when he asked or looked confused and Lilly spent the lunch speaking before she thought, more often than not insulting the golem now instead of Marlot.

“Lilly, can I talk to you outside. Golem, will you clean up please, like I showed you yesterday.”

“All of it Marlot?”

“Of course… ow.”

“Yes golem, all of them. Lilly, come with me.” Marlot grabbed Lilly’s arm where she had just pinched her.

Marlot could hear the golem pumping water into the sink and the sound of the dishes in the tub. “Lilly, I know you can’t help the way you are, and I know you are going to insult me on a fairly regular basis, but I would really appreciate you being nice to my golem. He can’t help it that he is kind of dull, he just came out of the cauldron yesterday and he is still learning. The last thing I want is for him to feel self conscious before he even knows what it means.”

“Marlot, I didn’t mean…”

“I know Lilly, but he means a lot to me, please just watch what you say.”