Summary

Chapter Twenty-Five: Warnings from Red

It was winter and the snow was falling. Rump grabbed a gnome and gave him a message for Red. First he thought about telling her about his witch aunts and Opal’s baby but changed his mind. In the message he sent with the gnome Rump told Red that he had three aunts in Yonder and that he grew. Sixteen days later, he got a message from Red. Lord Oswald was running out of food and there was hardly any gold left in the mountain. The King had found Opal out, but he couldn't kill Opal now, so he had turned his wrath on the mountain people. Rump wondered if Opal and her father told the King about Rump and if soldiers were searching for him.

To cheer Red up, Rump made up a rhyme and sent a...