Smurfette's Evil Mirror/Part 4

The following morning, the Smurfs have gathered together for breakfast around the dining commons outside. Empath, Smurfette, Tapper, and Duncan sat together as they ate their breakfast.

"My fellow Empath, have you by any chance seen our dear friend Handy this morning?" Tapper asked.

"Now that you've mentioned it, Tapper, this smurf hasn't seen him go through the breakfast line along with the other Smurfs," Empath answered. "This smurf can only wonder what's wrong with him."

"Maybe the laddie smurfed a busy night last night smurfing on something," Duncan guessed.

"That would be my guess as well, Duncan," Tapper said, sighing with realization. "Oh, well, I suppose he could sleep in a bit, but his fellow Smurfs are going to miss his presence helping them fix various things in the village today."

"You don't suppose this has anything to smurf with my magic compact, Empath, do you?" Smurfette asked.

"Why do you ask that, Smurfette?" Empath responded. "You know that Papa Smurf still has it in his possession."

"Maybe I'm just imagining things, Empath," Smurfette said. "But if Handy's so desperate to finish his latest invention, who knows what he was smurfing?"

"Papa Smurf is going to be busy in his laboratory today, Smurfette, so we will have to wait until later to check and see if your magic compact is still there," Empath said. "But this smurf would assume that nothing has happened to it during the passage of the night."

"I trust your word on that, Empath," Smurfette said, smiling.

Brainy and Clumsy approached the four of them at that point. "Empath, do you know what's going on with Handy this morning? I want to smurf to him about having my own personal smurfopedia for smurfing down my latest books, but I can't seem to smurf him out of bed," Brainy said.

"Yeah, what's happened to Handy?" Clumsy added, sounding curious.

Empath sighed. "It's possible that Handy had a busy night with one of his inventions and probably got so caught up in working on it that he just fell asleep by the morning light, Brainy."

"It figures that it would have to be one of those nights with Handy," Brainy said, sounding greatly displeased.

"Let the boy smurf his rest there, Brainy," Duncan said. "I'm sure that it must something really important that we're going to find out about smurfer or later."

"I'm sure your requests for Handy's services will wait until he has smurfed his full rest today, my friend," Tapper said.

Brainy sighed. "Very well, then. Come along, Clumsy."

"I wonder what Handy's smurfing on in his workshop last night that's so important, Brainy," Clumsy said as the two of them started to move along.

"Only smurf knows what it is," Brainy responded.

To be expanded on.