The Extremely Happy Time Machine

Previously

…Pip clapped his hands together, his earlier gloom completely vanquished. "Indeed! A most excellent adventure! Come, Lily-bean, let us embark on a quest for quality comedy! For the fate of the temporal continuum, and for Sir Reginald's decidedly un-happy face!" As they turned to survey the hall for clues, Sir Reginald watched them, a faint, almost imperceptible softening around his grim mouth. The grey sulk on the time machine’s console seemed to pulse, just a little, with a hesitant, hopeful, golden hue. The quest for Flikker, the missing jester, had officially begun.