spriggan

Another spriggan, identical to the first, climbed out of the glass before his hand reached it.

With a Single Spell Watt-Evans, Lawrence, 1954- 1987

Karanissa wailed as she swatted ineffectually at a spriggan, sending it scampering out the door and down the corridor.

With a Single Spell Watt-Evans, Lawrence, 1954- 1987

A spriggan giggled from one of the castle windows.

With a Single Spell Watt-Evans, Lawrence, 1954- 1987

Almost an hour later a spriggan glanced in the door and squealed; Tobas heaved a convenient boot at it, and it ran off.

With a Single Spell Watt-Evans, Lawrence, 1954- 1987

The second spriggan suddenly scampered to the edge of the table, yipped, “Bye-bye!” and jumped to the floor; before Tobas could stop it it had, like the first, dashed out of the door and out of sight.

With a Single Spell Watt-Evans, Lawrence, 1954- 1987

A moment later, behind him, behind the closed door, inside the wooden box, a spriggan emerged from the mirror and began whimpering dismally upon realizing that it was confined.

With a Single Spell Watt-Evans, Lawrence, 1954- 1987

Tobas dove for it and snatched it up, but a spriggan was in the process of climbing out of it and let out an ear-piercing shriek of sheer terror.

With a Single Spell Watt-Evans, Lawrence, 1954- 1987

Tobas turned, and saw the spriggan mirror bouncing toward them, obviously carried by Nuisance, with a horde of spriggans in hot pursuit.

With a Single Spell Watt-Evans, Lawrence, 1954- 1987

Karanissa started to say something, then stopped to pick a spriggan off a nearby chair and fling it out the door into the hallway.

With a Single Spell Watt-Evans, Lawrence, 1954- 1987

Every spriggan in the castle, three or four dozen of them, was charging directly toward him.

With a Single Spell Watt-Evans, Lawrence, 1954- 1987