“So What Is This Gloomy Place?”

“So what is this gloomy place?”

Betsy closed the dark wooden door and turned on an oil lamp. Now September could see everything. There were deep cuts on the dark wood and the oil gleamed in the light. She turned around.She saw no cupcakes and lollipops that she was promised but dusty and ancient sundries. “ I thought that we are supposed to be in the bakery.” September mumbled. “ I think that your heart hasn’t grown yet as the Green Wind always says. And I think that you would never have come here if I hadn’t tricked you.” They walked past the piles of armour pieces, books and paintings. They seemed to be covered with dust and moss and connected with spiderwebs. September’s nose was filled with the smell of sewer and decayed paper. They have squeezed through between piles of objects and came out to a clearing. Betsy hopped on a mini platform and said to September “Sit here.” He put the oil lantern next to a picture of an air balloon. September stared at her large and ungainly feet one of which didn’t a shoes. Silence fell between them. September felt something soft and squishy and she took up her hand.It was the dark moss on the floor. She thought she was supposed to like this, but she got a immense feeling that she didn’t like this. She could hear the pounding of her big and enormous heart.

Someday somehow she had felt that she regretted having not said goodbye to her parents and that she now missed them very much. “So I need to ask a question and I want you to promise to answer it. ”Betsy finally said after a long while. September suddenly noticed that she was still in this smelly and gloomy room.“OK.” “Where did you come from and why are you coming to this dangerous place?” September paused. She remembered that The Leopard Of Little Breezes told her that she could never spill out the secret that she came from the Human Land. Because if she wanted to go home, she needed to find the highest ruler of the Fairy Land. And the secret could only be told then. So she answered “It is none of your business.” “I am the Agent of Customs and I have the right and power to ask you this. ”Betsy said raising his voice. “You don’t have any right to ask me anything and you are a big bully.” September said with anger. “You are a girl who is crazy and without discipline. No one treats the leader of the Custom and Tradition Association with no dignity!" Betsy said taking offence. “And you are just a dwarf who has a big thick eyebrow and a fat waist!” September screamed.