So, if like me you despise fawning subservience in all its manifestations, I'm sure I can count on you to agree with me no matter what you think, because it pleases me for things to be that way).
Even The Bolt and Jugular, that regular haunt of many of the citizens, was deserted, and was just standing there like an empty public house, which it very much was.
“Fery strange indeed,” Jocular muttered to himself. “Vot is going on I vonder?”
Twenty minutes later, thanks to his supercharged internal set up, Jocular had conducted a thorough, ground based search of the entire town, the result of which was that he now knew things were slightly more off kilter than a Jehovah's Witness at a blood donating session.
And so, with absolutely no idea what was happening in and around his demesne, he de
