"You do know what rhymes with Puck, don't you?" said the Troll, Oswald, rather smarmily.
"Truck?" glibly replied Puck, who was really over that joke and this Troll.
"Look here friend", the Troll began with an emphasis on the word 'friend', "you wouldn't just happen to be related to them Cappuccino mob by any chance of fate, now would you?"
"Do I look like a dwarf to you?" answered Puck a little curtly - he had desperately needed some silence to collect his thoughts in.
Oswald persisted, "what with your name being Hood and all ... I was only thinking...”
"That was a long time ago Oswald" Puck replied, and then added drily, "and besides, we all wore hoods back then - it was the fashion."
"Style still is today I say,” said the Troll triumphantly, as though he had knitted up the dialogue with reason.
-Gabriel Brunsdon, Puck in Hell, Azlander Series
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