So Slithorin let Joe in on her true draconic identity and listened as he described the Offworld that the
six of them came from
that was called Grovers Mill,Pelugia,Earth.
She especially interested in the real estate business goings on in this Grovers Mills,and
Joe was somewhat unsettled by the fact she had claws rather
then fingernails at the end of her
fingers.
Slithorin kept a portable abascus and idly slid the beads back and forth as she calculated the
risk/return of doing business
in Grover Mills.
She scoffed at the notion her Tenant Wizard from Hell would help them
get back to Grovers Mills
and after a while asked Joe if he had any
"artifacts" from his homeworld.
The dragoness in disguise held no interest in his non functioning
iPad and other electronic gear
but took a keen interest in a battered
cartographic map of Grovers Mills he kept on his person.
Slithorin greedily examined the map and kept peppering Joe with various questions throughout the
night.
She loaded him up with coffee and so whilst the others
were snoring away Joe was awake
when Slithorin said
"I think we can do it at the nearby Glen of Clashing Rocks.We don't need that $%&^^$#$ tenant of mine
to cross over into Grover Mills from here."
That perked up Joe,who'd left his car running when Ty had hauled them all
off nine years earlier.
It was clear that after nine years,Ty was incompetent and incapable
of returning them to Grovers Mills.
So Slithorin and Joe talked in whispers as they made plans
to defy Ty and get everybody back to Grovers Mills.
So the next morning boastful Ty barked out orders to his
five companions.
"We move at dawn" he bragged,even though
dawn was long gone.
Joe talked quitetly to Mike ,Brian and Christine about
Slithorins work on getting them home.
Christine,who'd lost nine years of her life her,readily agreed and some armtwisting
later Mike and Brian came aboard.
In short order Christine had administered the knock out drops to
Dustin and Ty and the seven of them,headed to the Glen of the Clashing Rocks
and before the noon hour Slithorin had openned a portal and through it they all went back to
20167 Grovers Mills.
They were home again,but
girlfriends,boyfriends,relatives and parents had sometimes moved and Joe was horrified to discover his
aunt,had gone to Court
to have him declared legally dead so she
could collect the
Life Insurance Policy
she'd placed on his head.