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They rode
on in and da Muff followed with her light on
as well. As soon as they were in, the door
closed. "Ai yai yai" said G in a
whisper. "Told you that door would close." "Even
though it said blessings, it still is kinda
scarry in here ... and ... dark," said
J. "Exactly," says Granma.
With their marshmallow ‘headlights’ on, to their
surprise, once their eyes adjusted to the light,
or lack thereof, it was not as dark inside as
they expected. And the white stripes and swirls
in the Peppermint served as windows where light
showed through. "Far Out" says G. "We’ve
got windows, all the way from the bottom to the
top and all swirling around too! Fantastic!"
"Rad!" says the Hoo.
They could see craggy rock formations on each
side of a skinny winding red path. The path was
not wide enough for them to ride side by side,
so Julio and Pepper went in front, Granma behind
with da Muff in the lead. They rode slowly for
what seemed like a couple miles in the echoing,
maze-like chamber, the klompity klomp of the
horses feet being the only noise. It was hard
to tell distance inside this place. The marshmallow
'headlights' were a wonder and served them well.
Bless the smarty pants, J’s little heart thought G.
The path started going up and up and spiraling
around. When they came to a ‘white stripe window’
they could see a drop off on the right; looking
down to the place they had just come up from.
Da Muff was going very slowly ahead and the air
was getting chillier. The spirals led them up
and on and up and on and on and up. Thank goodness
the road got wider. They couldn’t tell how long
they had been inside. Whirr, flap, whirr whirr,
swoosh! "Steady there Mober ’ole girl," called
out Granma. Something like bats had just taken
off overhead. "Steady Mobe, steady" says
G. Pepper did whatever Mobe did, so they got
through the bats ok, since the critters flew
on up higher.
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