The Curiously Stunted, Incomprehensibly Disjointed, Perfectly Inadequate Adventures of Nicholas Cornelius Holloway – Episode 37

“It says gloomwraiths can only be killed with a mumbling axe by one who has never told a lie.”

“Got it.”

She raised an eyebrow. “You’ve never told a lie?”

“Never.”

“Are you lying now?”

“No.”

She paused. “You have a mumbling axe?”

“No.”

“Mumbling sword?”

He shook his head. “Wouldn’t work.”

“How about an articulate axe? We could teach it.”

“That might work. The tangled king has one, but he won’t hear me.”

“Nonsense.”

“No, I mean he literally won’t hear me. He can’t hear the truth.”

“I’ll handle...