Little Fingers in My Coffee: Part 8

The Gnome and I come face to face.

The Gnome began to speak.  “My village beautiful.  Many trees.  My family helps with work.  We, how you say it, harvest the bean.  What you humans call coffee beans.  We harvest the beans and it feed all of village.  When humans come they take beans.  They destroy my village.  Many family die, including my wife and kids.

I place my hand on my mouth, “OH, I’m so sorry to hear that.”

The Gnome continued.  “Only a few live. When we see our village, we cry.”

“Is that why you take sips of my iced coffee?”

Mikos nodded.  He smirked in embarrassment, but then he got serious again.   

“We take revenge.  But humans are many.  We take back the beans, we also take other things.  Our village is back to glory now but all of Gnomes has changed.  We like the new stuff.  We come and see what other new stuff that we can take.”

This explained why he was so sneaky.  “Mr. Mikos, what happens when you take the stuff?  What do you do with it?”

He points a finger at me. “I take it back to village.  We use to trade for other things, clothes, food and wine.”

“Have any other humans found out about you or your people?”

“We are mostly myth.  Only a few humans believe mostly children and people like you.  In order to see us the humans must believe in us.”

That’s interesting I thought.  “What will you do now?”

Mikos put his hands behind him.  He rocked his body back and forth.  “I wants coffee.”  He looked sheepish.

“If I give you the coffee will you stop all the trouble?”  I asked.    Before I give him an answer regarding the coffee I asked him. “What have you learned today? I mean I told you I wouldn’t hurt you, and I didn’t?”

Mikos said, “You first human to ask.  shocked am I.” He looked down at his right foot, moving it around it circles.

“I want to be your friend.  Can we be that?”  I put my pinky out for him to shake.

Mikos nodded and shook my pinky.

We talked for a while and I asked him questions about his life, village and if he found another wife.   After he answered them I told him to come back tomorrow.  I will have some coffee for him.

Smiling Mikos disappeared.

Don’t you just love the way they leave a room.  Anyway I have an Idea.

Until next time.