"There's not much to tell," as he'd admitted to Dorothy ages ago.
"My first years were at the Mauntery of St. Glinda before I was packed off with the woman most knew as the Wicked Witch of the West to the stronghold of Kiamo Ko. There, I was tolerated if not liked and things gradually progressed to where I left the keep in the company of a girl named Dorothy to escort her to the Emerald City. We parted company, I joined the Home Guard, and stayed there until I followed one order too many and struck off on my own.
"A year or so after that, I showed up here. And you have the whole of it."