Nicola held her breath and waited in complete silence, willing the old man to move along. She wasn't exactly feeling comfortable having contorted her body to fit awkwardly under the side table, but she didn't dare move a muscle as the wizard lingered, and lingered ...and lingered.
Just as Jasper finally began to move away Nicola felt an unwanted but familiar tickling sensation as her nose began to twitch involuntarily - she needed to sneeze! It was pretty dusty under the table but even so, it was typical that this would have to happen now of all times!
She held on as long as she could and thankfully before long the wizard left the room. Climbing out from under the table and feeling relatively safe Nicola finally succumbed to the urge to let out a sneeze, quietly she had thought, but seconds later the door Jasper had just exited through reopened. The wizard was smiling at her, looking like the cat who had got the cream.
In a blind panic, Nicola attempted to run in the opposite direction but soon found herself frozen in place mid stride, completely at the mercy of Jasper. Slowly, tbe old wizard walked over to face his prey.
"Nicola isn't it?" The wizard smiled "Welcome to your new home"
"What do you want from me?" The south east Asian beauty asked nervously, still able to speak even as she stood awkwardly in a running stance.
"Fun mainly" Jasper admitted "a nice young lady to test my spells on, turn into whatever I want, whenever I want and generally do as I please with"
"But that's worse than slavery" Nicola complained.
"Oh, come now my love, don't be so dramatic. You won't really have to do much, my magic will be doing all the hard work."
"But I..."
"Anyway, you can remain clotheless I think."
"But..." this crazy situation was going from bad to worse for Nicola.
"And you should refer to me as master. Stick to those simple rules and we'll get along just fine. Do you understand?"
Nicola stared at her new owner in disbelief. But she was smart enough to know she would have to play along with this, for now at least.
"Yes master" she responded obediently.