Ridfrek Comes Out of the Garden

One day Ridfrek had had it. The Wisperer had been goin' on for days about the world outside the garden and finally Ridfrek got fed up and opened the gate and curiously peeped out on the world outside. It was huge... it was in fact enormous... Ridfrek got frightened and cloosed the gate fast. Immediately he heard the wispering voice of the Wisperer:

"- That wasn't so hard, was it?"

Ridfrek peered out again. Suddenly somebody was standing in front of him. The stranger standing in front of him had a similar hat as he had. The stranger also had a beard and the clothing seemed similar to Ridfrek's.

"- Who are you?" Ridfrek asked after a long silence...

"- Who am I? You seriously claim that you don't know my name?" said the stranger.

Ridfrek was puzzled. The stranger actually answered a question with another question. Ridfrek was unaccustomed with this, cause all he knew was his often pointless conversations with the Wisperer. The Wisperer who never answered anything directly and always spoke in riddles. After a while Ridfrek had managed to formulate another question.

"- Yes, that what I asked you! Who are you?" he said emphatically.

"- Who am I? Outrageous, the man is an imbecile!" the stranger concluded and turned arround and went away. Ridfrek didn't understand anything at first. But after a while he realised that he had had his first encounter with another person and it somehow had failed. He had almost made contact...