It was still not noon when Jesper begun to wake up for the third time
that day. The bearded man, called Aschmed, who had came up through the
prison cell floor had carried the unconscious Jesper out of the cell
and into the hotel room where Aschmeds brothers were waiting for
them. Aschmed were just explaining to his brothers what had happened:
"I found him unconscious in the prison cell,
and I also found the reason
why he was unconscious", Aschmed pointed to the bump on Jesper's head
(the bump that Jesper got from the rock in the forest). He continued:
"The pigs
have assaulted
our hero until he became unconscious. For this they all must die the
horrifying question death."
Jesper opened his eyes, but fainted again when he saw who was in the
room with him and heard the words 'horrifying question
death'."
However, a bucket of ice-water finally woke him up. Aschmed
looked at Jesper and said:
"As you can see we kept our part of the deal. I hope you'll keep you
part Wilfor-Toto!"
Jesper almost, at first, became furious. Another squint-eyed man who
looked at him but talked to Wilfy. But then a rebellion neuron in
Jesper's brain connected a few synapses to a part in Jesper brain that
where in fallow. The section for logical thinking. Even though this
section was rather untrained, a close to logical thought developed in
Jesper's brain. 'Maybe the evil men think that I am the homicidal
maniac Wilfy, their equal, and not the terrified moron Jesper, their
victim.' At least he thought he could play along
and see what happened, so he said:
"Yes, Wilfor-Toto, that's me.
I am not Jesper, Wilfor-Toto, that's
right, that's me!'
Aschmed looked a bit suspicious but said:
"Yes, we know that, but what is you answer?
Will you keep your part of
the deal or not?"
Again Jesper had the same dilemma as before. He didn't know what the
deal was, so he again tried his sometimes successful answer and said:
"Yes, of course!"
"Excellent! Any suggestions what to do next? It has to be something
bad. We get severe abstinence if we don't do at least one crime a day
that correspond to at
least 5 years in prison, even according to crime liberal
jury."
Jesper felt that if he didn't come up with a good suggestion, these
men would satisfy their needs by assaulting him. But if he told them to
do something bad, he would be responsible for their action. He needed
to come up with an extremely smart suggestion. God, he would give his
right tomb for a three digit IQ. Oh, that's right he didn't have a
tomb on his right hand. He was so nervous that he could hear how his
own heart pounded. Knock knock, knock knock,
knock knock. KNOCK??!! Oh, It wasn't his heart. It was someone at
the door. Omar, the youngest of the brothers, opened the
door. Outside the door was a strange looking woman. To the
surprise of everybody she wasn't scared to death by the evil
looking men in the
room. Instead she walked into the room and went around to all the
brothers shook their hands and looked them in their eyes.
The brothers all stared at the very strange
looking woman, who didn't seem to know the meaning of the word
fear. After she met all the men she said:
"I am Olivia the witch. Who are you?"
All the men answered simultaneously with monotonic voices:
"We are little yellow rubber duckies!"
"And where do little yellow rubber duckies want to be?"
The men looked confused by Olivia's question, so she answered in their
place:
"In the bath-tub!"
All the men walked with a composed waddling gait to the
bathroom. Olivia smiled a smile of felicity and walked to Jesper. She
caressed his cheek tenderly and said:
"Finally we are alone, sweetheart!"
Jesper, who never had seen anybody being
hypnotized before, was stunned.
The evil men that for a few minutes ago
were planning a severe crime, were
now believing that they were rubber duckies
and planning how all could penetrate into
the bath-tub. His thoughts were interrupted by Oliva
who said:
"Let's get out of here. I know a place where it is
very cozy, my little pussy-cat!"
She hugged him firmly but tenderly, and tousled the
bald Jesper's ears. Jesper almost panicked:
"Who was this over-friendly and strange looking woman?
Was she expecting a big service in return for rescuing him?
How come she seemed to know him?
How come she found him?"
He needed an answer badly, at least
to some of the questions, since his head were
now over full with questions, after a rather
hectic day. So, he said:
"How did you find me, Olivia?"
"Oh, darling have you forgotten that I am psychic,
my stupid little Teddy-bear. I can find you everywhere!"
That was the answer to one of the questions, but somehow it
didn't make him feel any better. As Jesper saw the situation,
he now had two choices: