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But — and this is true of all archetypical mythologies, readers, so don’t be disheartened — as the timid little sell-side negotiator stood, wide-eyed, the wondrous spell sparkled and crackled in the air, but it did not seem to stop the relentless advance. Eventually it faded away to a dispersing vapour. “Oh — oh ''dear''.” The poor little sell-side negotiator quailed, defenceless out there in front of her ramparts, beyond the safety of her city walls, as, from the darkened forest, monstrous buyside warriors swaggered towards her.

Expecto what?

“Um — ah — nothing,” she said, in a voice that was all the more frightful for its meek insignificance.

“Trouble us nae with thy amateur hokey pokey!” The nearest one roared. “Yi’ll nae stop the mighty hedgers wi’ a weedy concoction like ''tha’''. Now let’s take that harmless wee lockie and put it back taegither, and we shall pretend this did no’ happen, aye?”

And with that, the ogre scooped up the damp fragments at the negotiator’s feet and, in a demonstration of power altogether more terrifying than anything one could do with a broadsword, he waved his great, meaty fingers over the shreds on the palm of his great  hand ''and they magically knitted themselves back together''.  

The warrior leveled his great, green eyes to regard the negotiator. “Now, my young friend. What was ye saying about ye standing for nae lockup?”

But where the little sell-sider had been was a curlicue of disturbed dust.

“Come, on Bill,” said the great warrior of the hedge-people, kicking over the footmarks. “Our work here is done.”

But his comrade paused. He feared that, perhaps the work was not done. That there was more magic, that might intervene in the relations between the hedgefolk and their bankers. “Bill? Bill! Are you awreet man?”

Bill looked around nervously, and knew even then that they would be lucky to see out the night. “Aye, Melvin, aye. Awreet.”  

He joined his colleague on the march back to the line of trees, but his hands trembled beneath his cloak.