The Deep Dark Woods.

This is Hud's domain, which he guards fiercely. I am permitted access as long as I respect his edicts.
It is also where I have my occasional , and usually unsatisfactory, meetings with that Machiavellian Monarch, The King of the Fairies. He is a wily old wizard and his conditions normally include a poisoned barb hidden in a tempting fruit.
Hud acts as mediator and puts me wise to these subterfuges. I'd be lost without him.
I have managed to get some small concessions from him such as the Fairies help in controlling pests in return for a promise to leave this area untouched.
That kinda suited all of us.
What Hud and I both missed is that that means I cannot lay a finger on any part of this grotto without incurring some sort of dire penalty.