i jumped at the sound of the front doors being flung open wide and a dwarf with the biggest grin on his face wearing a wide ankle length apron about his waist came bounding down the stairs , then jumping from a couple of steps up from the end of this flight of steps flung out his arms and caught serinae about the neck , the force of the collision spun seri around but she grabbed onto his back and spun about several times with the poor dwarves legs flying out behind him as if she was swinging a great war hammer trying to keep some surrounding enemy at bay .