Chew was not confused, though. She found Tweek to be a very amusing fellow, and she decided on the spot that she would make him her pet. So she grabbed him by one of the tentacles that grew from the tip of his trunk, and dragged him with her, deeper into the dark tunnel.
Tweek was astonished at the tiny girl’s strength. Exhausted already by his long flight away from the furious volcano, and half-starved, he struggled and he fought, and he dug his fat little feet into the earth, but all to no avail. Chew dragged him deeper and deeper into the tunnel.
Chew dragged him deeper and deeper into the tunnel.
At last they popped out into a little pocket in the earth, crowded with tiny creatures that looked just like Chew. A strange twilight suffused this little burrow, a green and purplish luminescence that emanated from a myriad of roots that made up the walls of the strange place. Minute sparks, blue and pink and gold, floated through the burrow and among the many Theeroi who were huddled there in knots.
They were dirty, as Chew was, and all had just come back from their terrific battle. Many were wounded, and others tended to their wounds. All of them had bellies that were huge and distended, from the many demons they had gobbled up in the furious fighting.
None of them were pleased to see this captured demon, and all of them were too tired, or too full, to be bothered with the business of eating him at that moment. But they all gave voice to an angry growl, which so terrified little Tweek that he gave out a hopeless squeak of fear.