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"Silphil's heart raced as the creature drew ever closer. She could feel it's breath as it's maw was only a few feet away though it hadn't spotted her yet. Suddenly, it opened it's gaping mouth and-"
"Lord Marcus, Sendron send me to find you."
"Thank you Page, run along now," The page did as he was told. Marcus lifted himself from his seat and the children that were gathered around him ground unhappily, "I'm sorry, but remember, if you learn how to read yourself, you won't need me to sweep you off to another world," He stepped over the gathered children and put the book back on the shelf, "No more stories today I'm afraid, good bye little ones." the group left the room, each thanking him as they went. Once they all left, Marcus instantly appeared inside his Private Quarters, where Sendron was waiting.
"Just what were you off doing now My Lord?" Sendron asked, "You are supposed to be here sorting though the taxes and deciding what we should fund into next." He motioned to the seemingly untouched stack of papers on his desk.
"Thank you for the reminder Sendron. But, I had already finished," Marcus walked over the the desk where on top there was a pile of unfinished paperwork. He reached underneath and pulled open the desk. Inside was another stack of papers, all neatly filled out and finished. Sendron asked, "Then what is this?" pointing to the papers on top of the desk.
"Those are copies of the papers you gave me, I made them right after you handed these to me." He replied, waving the complete tax papers in the air.
"Why would you make a copy of unfinished work?" The adviser asked.
"To see how far I had come," Marcus said, as if it were common knowledge, "Now, when can we set out on our next journey for the Tome?"
"Sire, I really am not willing to support you in this case unless I know what you want from that book."
"So you're saying I should tell you?"
"Please."
"Well when you put it that way," Marcus summoned an imp into the room. Then just as quickly, he killed it by crushing it's primary organs from the inside using a spell. Marcus turned to Sendron, "Now what?"
"I don't follow Marcus."
"What do we do now?" Marcus asked.
"I suppose we clean up this mess." Sendron answered, wondering just where was he going with this.
“Well what if this imp was important, say we needed information out of it. What do we do?”
“We can’t do anything.”
“Why?”
“Because he’s been killed.”
“Exactly.”