The Rise And Fall Of Smurfy Tower/Part 5

Evening came, and the Smurfs that were left in the village, which included Empath, Papa Smurf, Baby Smurf, Tapper, Duncan, Culinary, Biscotti, Gelato, Vino, and the Smurflings, all sat down to dinner together with Polaris Psyche. Their meal was a simple vegetable stew that the kitchen crew had cobbled together under Culinary's direction since Greedy was not there to even make suggestions as to what should be prepared for dinner.

Tapper was permitted to pray blessings upon the food before they ate together. "O Lord God Almighty, the Maker of heaven and earth, we thank You for the few Smurfs we have left in our village. Please strengthen our hands and our hearts as we smurf together to enjoy the food that has been prepared from Your gracious bounty. May the food smurf nourishment to our bodies as Your Word smurf to our spirits. We smurf you all the praise and glory in the name of Your only begotten Son Jesus. Amen."

"Amen," Empath and Duncan said together before the Smurfs began eating.

"Where's Snappy, my little Smurflings?" Papa Smurf asked when he noticed that there was one missing among the four gathered at the table.

"Snappy said that he was going to smurf over to Smurfy Tower and smurf his own smurfominium along with the rest of the grown-up Smurfs, Pappy," Sassette replied.

"And that was several hours ago that we heard Snappy smurf that, Papa Smurf," Nat added.

"I guess he really wanted to smurf what kind of life is all about, so he smurfed up everything he had and just left," Slouchy contributed.

"Shouldn't you smurf something to smurf him back, Pappy?" Sassette asked.

"Not at this time of day, my little Sassette," Papa Smurf answered. "As much as I don't like his disobedience in this matter of not smurfing to Smurfy Tower when he is too young to smurf a place of his own, he will have to smurf out things the hard way when he realizes how much work smurfing his own place will be."

"That seems like a rather cruel way to teach a young Smurfling a lesson, even if it is necessary for him to learn it, Papa Smurf," Polaris said.

"It is cruel, Polaris, but sometimes important lessons have to be learned that way if they are to have any impact on any Smurf's life, particularly when a Smurf is too young to handle grown-up things," Empath said.

"All the same, my heart smurfs out to the young Smurfling, Empath," Tapper said. "At least he will have dozens of other Smurfs that will smurf out for him in case something smurfs wrong."

"He'll survive whatever he has to smurf up with in Smurfy Tower, laddie," Duncan said. "He's too stubborn a young Smurfling to just give up and smurf back home."

"We'll just have to leave the fate of those Smurfs in the hands of Father Time and Mother Nature, my little Smurfs, and trust that they will be secure until fate directs us to intersmurf on their behalf," Papa Smurf said.

To be expanded on.