During the trip, Gullett acquainted his guide with his tale, and in due course they guided the granite lump to the police station and got him safely ensconced in a cell.
(On a side note, to use the word 'him' to describe a troll is arbitrary at best and shouldn't be taken as gospel. This was because, millennia ago, when all deities of any standing hadn't developed much in the way of an imagination, and so stuck to rather strict rules about what their worshippers should look like, the troll god, Rumble, said he wanted to create all trolls in his image, meaning that they, quite literally, all came from the same mould. And that's how it might have stayed if one of Rumble's advisors hadn't noticed that they all looked exactly the same, well duh, a design characteristic that might have proved
