![]() ![]() From the shadows behind a tree-trunk two eyes were staring at them. 'Look!' he said, so frightened that his tail stuck straight out. ![]() But I hope we're so small that we won't be noticed if something dangerous should come along.' Suddenly Moomintroll gripped his mother tightly by the arm. 'Hardly,' she said, 'though we'd perhaps better go a little faster, anyway. Little by little, Moomintroll began to feel anxious, and he asked his mother if she thought there were any dangerous creatures in there. So they walked on, further and further into the silence and the darkness. Moomins cannot stand the cold at all, so the house would have to be ready by October at the latest. They were searching for a nice, warm place where they could build a house to crawl into when winter came. 'Glow-worms,' said Moominmamma, but they had no time to stop and take a closer look at them. Here and there giant flowers grew, glowing with a peculiar light like flickering lamps, and furthest in among the shadows, small, cold green points moved. ![]() ![]() It was completely quiet, and so dim between the trees that it was as though twilight had already fallen. It must have been late in the afternoon one day at the end of August when Moomintroll and his mother arrived at the deepest part of the great forest. The Moomins and the Great Flood In the original Swedish its title is The Little Trolls and the Great Flood. ![]()
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