Bolstered by her confidential conversation with Pandora Montague, Trudi would not give up until there seemed to be nothing else to do.

It was with this renewed sense of purpose, that while walking through the woods between the village and the meadow, Trudi found and captured an unfortunate lady leprechaun.

“It’s a shame you’re not a male one instead,” said Trudi, “But I’m on my way to the meadow, and you’ll make a nice picnic lunch just the same.”

‘Mountains Family’ had finally gone into syndicated reruns, and the friendly neighbour would always let Murray watch the show on her television set. In a few months, he had watched the entire series through, including catching the ‘Mountains Family Easter Special’ for the second time. As he returned to the leprechaun town after watching the last episode, he felt like he’d finally been dating Trudi in his mind for several months. Now it felt like they had just broken up for good. He’d never see her again, and couldn’t even hear her voice on the phone. That had been her own decision, the one thing she could still control about the situation.

When he got back to the leprechaun town, he tried to put Trudi out of his mind for a while, and to focus on the gala ball coming up the following night. Twenty-four hours later, he put on his best tailored leprechaun fashion statement and turned up at the ball. Once the dancing had started, he found himself without a partner, until a young leprechaun woman named Rinkella asked him to dance with her. He’d grown up thinking that, in the regular sized society from which he’d come, it was more traditional for the man to take the lead in these situations. However, Rinkella had a sense of beauty that was only dwarfed by his all consumng thoughts of Trudi. He might as well see if he could replace impossible fantasies with immediate reality.

The leprechauns had no form of disco music or disco freestyle dancing. So the music at the ball was designed for the leprechauns to adopt slow dancing embraces at the very beginning of the dance music bracket. It seemed to serve one purpose, Murray thought. It eliminated the possibility of a guy getting the wrong idea and entertaining false hopes while disco dancing with a woman, only to have her think of him as ‘just friends’ material and walk off in the middle of the evening. Here at the leprechauns gala ball, he felt for certain that Rinkella had asked him to dance because of a genuine interest in his company.

They slow danced and talked together all evening, until the ball came to an end. Knowing that they’d both sleep in the next day, they planned to meet for a lunch date in the closest flower bed in the meadow.

Murray arrived right on the agreed upon time, to see that she was already there. Lady leprechauns appeared to be more punctual than humans, when turning up for dates, he reflected.