Chapter 27
Princess Gwenalot awoke with a start as Fraggles started jumping into the pond, showering her with water. It was the first day of the fourth month of the new year, and she found she enjoyed just going to sleep under the moonlight each night. Unlike everything that had happened before, the tranquility of the moon was a welcome sight.
Today was the day she would go to the Blue Rock. It didn't seem that important to her anymore, since no one really felt the need to treat her like royalty lately. To be perfectly honest, she just wanted to be a regular Fraggle for awhile, to disappear in the throngs of Fraggles. Leading had not been all her parents had made it out to be. A Fraggle here and there would still ask for her advice, but everyone could sense she didn't want to be leader at the moment. After the war, no one really wanted one, either.
Still, Gwen had decided that since she postponed the Festival of the Bells and that ended up badly, maybe she shouldn't have postponed going to the Blue Rock either. Maybe she wouldn't … maybe she wouldn't have lost all of her friends lately had she just faced the music.
As she walked with her cape and her helmet in her arms, her blonde hair tied up in a bun, streaked with red, she thought about Mallory, about Sir Blunderbrain, about Blundig … she wanted to believe they were all still alive, just … changed. After all, they'd be friends still, no matter what.
She spotted some Doozers coming in and out of freshly dug tunnels, carting around piles of white powder. Gwen thought that was strange, though she had noticed that mushrooms had become more plentiful this spring. Perhaps the Doozers had discovered a new material, though she didn't know what could be built with just a handful of powder.
Bring back the season.
Bring back the time.
Bring back the wonder that used to be mine.
Laughing and splashing, we lived in a glow.
Bring back the wonder we knew long ago.
Bring back the wonder we knew long ago.
Wind on our faces, and race on the lawn,
Life was so new it would last on and on.
I was in love with the soft river flow.
Bring back the wonder we knew long ago.
Bring back the wonder we knew long ago.
As Gwen kept walking, she realized she should have been there by now, so she took a nap. She got up later and kept walking. Now she realized that, somehow, she had gotten lost. She couldn't remember which tunnels she had been travelling before.
After a week of this, she finally found herself in a large cave filled with beautiful large red flowers. It was very humid in this cave. One particularly gigantic blossom opened right in front of her, showering her with a pale yellow mist. Coughing and gagging, she ran backwards, stumbling occasionally, slamming her back against the wall of another tunnel.
Author's Note: I don't own this song from Fraggle Rock either.