Raymond gave the matter serious thought.
‘You make
bets with bags of gold, while the people on your land are starving,’ he stated.
‘What kind of a king are you? I will tell you this… Tomorrow afternoon I will
walk around the village, if I see food on every table and animals in the fields
I will take your job. If not, I will come and kill you.’
‘Are you
really so confident that you could kill me?’ the ogre asked.
‘You are
smaller than a dragon,’ Virgil pointed out.
The ogre
laughed, it was not a happy sound.
“I accept
the challenge,’ the ogre said. ‘I will feed my people, you will kill the
dragon, and we will both be very rich!’
‘Where is
the dragon to be found?’ Virgil asked. ‘And what manner of dragon is it?’
‘A Water
Dragon, to be found in the south east, where it ravishes the costal towns of Lancashire .’
Water Dragon. Raymond calculated. Can swim, cannot fly, cannot breath fire. Invulnerable to fire. Vulnerable to steel. 50-60 paces long. 5- 6 ton. Quite
easy.
‘See you tomorrow,’ Raymond
dismissed the ogre.
He found
his bed to the occupied. An unmistakably feminine figure lay there. On pulling back
the sheets, he saw that it was Molly. After pausing a moment to admire the
smooth curves of her naked body, he ran
is fingers gently threw her hair.
She woke,
looked up at him, and then embraced him tightly.
‘I did not
know if you would come back,’ she said.
‘I don’t
die easily.’
‘Kiss me…’
He did.
Then they made love. Passionately.
‘Stay here
with me,’ she said, when she finnaly caught her breath.
‘I stay
here untill the next evening. I have work with the ogre.’
‘ No… Stay
with me. Here. Always…’
‘You should
forget such ideas. Men with my job don’t live long enough to be good husbands.
Go and tell your friends that you slept with the mighty Raymond, then go get
yourself a steady man who treats you right.’
Then he
made love to her again.
In morning
she was gone.
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