The Goblins of Dragon Hill Another Ripple Through Time Into a Different Dimension

The Old Green Way had a reputation for strange things happening along it going back many centuries. Those strange things had begun, the ones people knew about anyway, with the girl kidnapped on the way to her wedding during the 1500's and never seen again, and had continued on down through the centuries, with spates of similar disappearances from time to time. Some reported, some not. The day in 1827 when Mary Lockyear, disappeared was one of those times a disappearance wasn't reported. Not until a long time afterwards, anyway, because nobody knew it was that sort of disappearance, and not just a boy and girl going off together as boys and girls have gone off together since the dawning of time, frequently to the total disapproval of the parents of one or other of them. Had folk known it was not that sort of disappearance, but one involving a boy and girl being kidnapped and taken to a different dimension by goblins serving the Dragon King of that realm, they might not have been so quick to condemn the pair. It was a Sunday, and Mary who, being a girl, ought to have known better, was discussing Greenaway Cottage and its current occupants with her friend, Tom Threshold, who, being a boy, couldn't really have been expected to know better, and so shouldn't really be blamed for anything that subsequently happened as a result.