I knew I was in big trouble when I started to see a lot of shadows in my very cloudy sight. Their voices were too familiar and filled with hate, while the shadows themselves seemed deformed with pointed ears sticking out like they were stabbed with knives. When I could actually see straight again, I realized that these 'shadows' are actually the other goblins, the exact same goblins I was running away from in the first place, and all these torches everywhere I saw led me to believe I was back in the camp. Things were only getting worse from now on, especially since they must have tied me up so I couldn't move and the goblins were all insulting me and kicking me around like a broken toy.
"Throw this bad goblin in dark cave! Grodax command this!" I knew that was Stezom's voice; I could recognize that rattling, angry shout from anywhere in the area, even if I wasn't able to actually see him. This time though, I really wanted to make him mad... and I knew just what would do it, too.
"Dark cave can't scare Tgerd! Tgerd escape from Tall Ones just like Tgerd escape here before!" My little plan worked much better than I thought it would; the entire camp was silent right after I shouted back at Stezom and some of the goblins even started to slowly back away from me like I was a bloodthirsty monster. They were actually starting to fear me! Even Stezom himself couldn't believe what I just said to him!
"No... n-no one gets trapped by Tall Ones and live! Even full goblin clans die from Tall Ones' tiny camp! How can one wimpy goblin escape Tall Ones alive?"
"Tgerd lucky to see only one Tall One, but still tricked Tall One to help Tgerd without fighting."
"Tgerd not survive Tall One," one of the goblins realized, "Tgerd is traitor of clan! Tgerd try to help Tall Ones kill goblin clan!" Their fear disappeared really fast and they were back to being angry at me like I didn't say anything at all, but I didn't care anymore. If I was going to die in some big hole in the ground, then at least I got a big scare from them all. I didn't even try to break free from the ropes they tied me into, as much as I wanted to see the Tall One Sally again, because even if I did escape from these ropes, I wouldn't be able to find my way to the Tall One that trusted me... or out of the cave at the very least.
I tumbled, rolled, and bounced for quite a while and somehow landed on something soft that gave off its own light without fire or burning anything, but it looked almost like the green stuff we all stepped on forever, except this was blue. Actually, everything was giving off a blue light in this cave and it confused me pretty hard, but the really big mushrooms made me think I was having a strange dream... until I saw something sticking out of the blue grass: it was about as tall as I was, but it looked like a sharp, pointy thing made of some rock, so I crawled pretty much like a worm all the way to this sharp rock and tried to stand myself up against it, something really hard to do without my arms or legs to help out. I wanted to know if this rock could actually break these ropes that took a big beating on the way to this spot, or if I would be acting like a worm for who knows how long before it all ends harshly. I rubbed the ropes against the rock slowly at first, trying to make sure I don't end up hurting myself, but before I knew what happened, the rock nearly cut into my skin. I wasn't sure if it actually was because of the rope or the rock, but it didn't matter much; the rope wasn't trapping me anymore and I was getting very hungry. I didn't want to eat these blue mushrooms since I had no idea if they would kill me or not, but I ripped one of them from the blue grass anyway and bit into the strangely soft skin. I instantly hated the taste; it felt like I was chewing on a rotten piece of a tree branch and I really wanted to spit it out and forget I even tried this horrible idea, but I wanted to see Sally again... I wanted her to know I was still alive and this was the only thing making me eat the mushrooms around here while I stay trapped in this blue glowing field for what I was sure was a long time before a much brighter, yellowish light slowly shined in the distance and grew even brighter as it floated toward me... a Tall One was controlling this light, which was just a torch but smaller than the ones back in the camp, and my survival instincts forced me to run to this Tall One and beg for its help. "Please, must help," I cried a little weakly, "other goblins tie up... throw Tgerd in big hole... end up here... musss..." I couldn't even say much before I strangely felt very weak, and collapsed before I knew what happened.
The next thing I knew, I was laying on something soft with my head hurting and my sight was cloudy again, just like before, except now there were no goblins anywhere and everything looked a lot different than the goblin camp; the wood walls looked much better, some boxes stacked were made of metal, and there were even tall wooden boxes that looked like tiny houses! This place was even weirder than the blue grass field I was trapped in before. My cloud vision was hurting my head more, so I just closed my eyes hoping the pain would go away.
"Good, you're awake," a soft voice spoke to me, "nothing seems to be broken, but you might want to lay still and rest your head for a while... oh, and please eat this. Tim said you were really hungry. I opened my eyes to see a rather large apple held by the Tall One who talked to me. Of course, I tore the apple from the Tall One's hand and bit off a large chunk of the fruit, a much better choice than those mushrooms I had to force myself to eat before. "Nice to see you're all right," the Tall One said calmly, realizing I was in no danger of anything bad happening, "and I would get you some more, but I have someone else to take care of right now." The Tall One then then left to another part of the large house to do what it said, but I managed to eat the entire apple before the Tall One left my sight. The soft material of what I was laying on was somehow making me tired, even though I was still hungry a little, and my head was still hurting too so I decided to stay on this comfy thing and ended up falling asleep in a few minutes.