Okay, started the new story.

It's sort of a take-off on Sir Terry Pratchett's novel The Wee Free Men which I recently completed. Yes, it's aimed at teens, but if you're a Discworld fan, that doesn't matter.

My story won't have any Nac Mac Feegles, but it will have Gnomes, which are (in my world) evil beings who steal children to be their slaves; and, once the children have grown up, well, they're not useful anymore and are sold to elves (even nastier beings, which appear in my latest story, soon to be published on gayauthors.org). In my story, gnomes, or agents thereof, have stolen a boy.

An expedition is mounted to enter the netherworld and rescue the child. Normally, humans are not permitted to enter the netherworld, but children easily slip in and out because they still have strong imaginations and their brains aren't cluttered up with a lot of logic that says that some place like the netherword shouldn't exist. Since adult humans can't enter the netherworld, there are some serious discussions going on as to who should join the rescue party. Luckily, in my story, there are two humans who might just have the qualifications to slip in unnoticed.