Murray and Rinkella sat down together with their prepacked picnic lunches. Murray had his back to the meadow grass, looking at the combination of Rinkella and the scenic normal sized flowers around her. Rinkella was facing him, with a view of the meadow grass behind him as well. They ate their lunches and talked for the best part of an hour.

“I guess I should be honest with you, Rinkella. I think you’re going to find me to be a very slow mover in anything that may or may not develop between us. It’s not than I ever saw myself as being a slow mover in general. The thing I’m struggling to deal with at the moment is that you’re only the second lady I’ve ever been with, and only the first leprechaun. I came to join your society after being reduced in size from regular human stature, as all your people have known since they voted to accept me as an honorary leprechaun. I’m still very much grieving the necessary but heart wrenching break up of an all too brief relationship with an older human woman I loved, make that still love, very much. Is that too much baggage to lay on a girl on a first or second date?” asked Murray.

“No, but in the spirit of being equally honest with you, I haven’t really developed any feelings for you either.”

“Oh ... It’s okay, but I’m just a bit confused. Why did you ask me to dance last night, and suggest this picnic yourself too?”

“To keep an agreement she made with me,” came a third and very familiar voice. He turned around and looked between the flowers, to find that Trudi was lying on the edge of the meadow grass, with her head resting on her hands.

Murray shuffled his legs, rotating his body around, so that he could sit facing Trudi, while Rinkella got up and sat down beside him.

“I’m sorry. It was the only way to save myself,” said Rinkella, “She caught me in the woods and brought me to the meadow to eat me for her own picnic lunch. I asked her what would make her do such a thing. She told me that it was as some sort of poor second best substitute for eating you. She told me all about the history between you two. It was then that I got the idea of asking her if she would promise to spare me, if I could guarantee that she would recapture you. She agreed, and said she’d much rather eat you all up than me. So we set this trap, and I offered myself to you at the dance last night as bait.”

“Does she know where the leprechaun town is?” asked Murray.

“No. That wasn’t part of the deal. I’d never agree to put all our people at risk, but you have to understand. You came to us recently as an outsider, and it was you she was really after,” said Rinkella.