Starfell chapter sampler

The Monster from Under the Bed

Three pairs of thick bottle-green wool socks A large, rather lumpy fisherman’s jersey of indeterminate colour, mostly pea green – a hand-me-down from her father An enormous, and very old, slightly mouldy-looking khaki-green nightdress – once belonging to Granny Flossy One pale-blue scarf dotted throughout with small white horseshoes – still belonging to her sister Camille

Briefly she wondered why almost everything she owned was a rather unfortunate shade of green. She then stood thinking for a minute, her fingers drumming her chin, trying to make up her mind: should she, or shouldn’t she? Then she knelt down, and after a bit of scrambling she pulled out the monster who lived under the bed, clasping him firmly by his long tail. This was to his absolute horror, which sounded like this: ‘Oh no! Oh, me greedy aunt! A pox on you from all of the kobolds!’ and she put him alongside her worldly belongings.

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