Nidget's Learning Box

"I GOT IT OPEN!" He had rushed into my shop, we'd been back in to town for two days and for two days I was Nidget free, I knew it wouldn't last but you know how these things work for me the longer something good happens, the more likely something bad will happen.

"Do you know that other people don't just bang my door open and shout at me Nidget? Amazingly they have respect for courtesy." The train ride home was boring, just Nidget banging his box, when we got home Captain Therod was not even waiting for us (amazingly she's got stuff to do other than watch over me and Nidget, I know I'm stunned too).

"Do you want me to leave and come back?"

"No, the moment is ruined, so what was in your useless box of wasting my time?" He had the box with him, and he was in my shop so I figured he was going to try and sell me whatever relic he had won.

"Nothing was in the box." He was dejected, the opposite of the shouting he lead with.

"Nothing? Not even a piece of paper saying 'Thanks for nothing sucker'." Was that necessary? No no it wasn't, but was it fun yes yes it was.

"You're enjoying this aren't you?"

"More than you'll ever know."

"So will you buy it?"

"Buy your crappy empty box that had locks on it for no good?"

"Yes."

"Tell you what because I kind of feel sorry for you, yet also want to mock you, I'll put this on comission for you, after a month of it not selling on my counter I'll burn it and pay you some gold coins, sound fair?"

"How much mockery?" I smiled and he sighed.  And so Nidget's Learning Box was christened as my counter top ornament.  Though thinking back on it, I should have called it "Trezlan and Nidget's Learning Box", but you know how this kind of thing goes, at the time it seemed like just something to mock him with.  I had no idea he had unleashed evil and invited it into my store. What can I say, it looked like a dumb little box.