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The Monster from Under the Bed

monster because Oswin had told them so shortly before he took up refuge in the stove. He refused to come out or to tell themwhere he was from for that matter. Later Willow would find out that this was a sore point, as he and his fellow kobolds had been banished from their home and scattered throughout Starfell due to a bit of thievery on the part of his aunt Osbertrude. But Willow hadn’t known any of that when she’d taken him from the Jensens’ stove. She’d figured that if he really was ‘lost’, it couldn’t hurt to try ‘finding’ him with her magic, using these precise words: c u r r e n t l y r e s i d i n g i n t h e J e n s e n s ’ s t o v e i n G r i n f o g , t h e k i n g d o m o f S h e l a g h , S t a r f e l l . ’ It didn’t hurt to be precise about such things just in case there were any other Jensens in any other parts of the world who also had lost monsters to contend with. And Oswin had arrived into her outstretched arms with an orange plop. He was the size of a large and fluffy tabby cat, but one who glowered at her with cat-like fury. In fact, if you didn’t know better, and you S u m m o n t h e l o s t m o n s t e r

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