Chapter 13
Deep down the chasm walls climbed Princess Gwenalot and Sir Blunderbrain. She noticed that he had a small black vase-like object on his head, held in place with a leather strap. "Where did you get that?" she asked.
He smiled. "After that bottle hit me in the head, I took your advice to find a helmet to heart," he replied cheerfully. "Not only does it protect my head, but I can store stuff in it, too!"
"I guess that's using your head," Princess Gwenalot remarked as she focused on keeping her balance on a particularly narrow ledge.
"Better to use it than to bruise it," Sir Blunderbrain cackled.
When they finally reached the bottom of the chasm, the sound of mud popping and plopping met them.
"Wow," Sir Blunderbrain gasped with eyes wide as he took in the scene. The entire chasm was caked in mud. Huge mounds of mud were hardening and cracking open. After about ten minutes, the whole place was swarming with blue-purple reptiles.
"What are they?" Princess Gwenalot asked to no one in particular.
The creatures were scaly like lizards. Each had half-closed eyes and a purple curved horn on their heads. They all seemed kind of dopey. A whole chasm filled with hundreds of purple lizards. The two Fraggles had never seen anything like that before.
The lizards' stupor and disorientation didn't last long after they burst from muddy mounds. Perhaps it was due to the huge population of lizards so crowded in one space. Perhaps it was just the nature of these creatures. Soon, though, they all began to panic. They tried to climb out of the chasm, but the slippery mud forced them back down. They started to scream.
The mud underneath them started to churn and bubble and the ground and chasm walls started to rumble once again.
Princess Gwenalot and Sir Blunderbrain looked at each other in disbelief.
Sir Blunderbrain's smile nearly took over his entire face. "It appears, milady, that the rocks will crush us … once again."
Princess Gwenalot smiled sheepishly. "Seems that way."
"Have you been enchanted with some bad luck curse or some such thing?"
The Princess chuckled.