MADELEINE STUCKEY
digging into him. “Argh.” “I was joking about the shouting.” “Aa—” “Brian, hello? Are you there?” Then Yort heard a choked cry of help. “Oh no not the pintac,”Yort said, and he ran to the other gate.
7 Yort’s Hide-out “Ow!” Both Yort and Brian let out a cry of pain together as Brian’s head shot up into Yort’s. Both received giant dark bruises. “Ow!” Brian exclaimed again, as he discovered he was covered with painful, deep, grass cuts. He also noticed his clothes were ripped, and a foul smelling green sludge on the deepest and worst of the wounds. “What did you do that for, shooting your head up like that?”Yort shouted, removing a wad of green sludge from his eye. “I didn’t mean to.” “Well you did. And now there is montagotraly all over my laboratory.” “Excuse me, but what is montraglowy?” “Montagotraly! A simple remedy for most things, it’s a mix of potraly, mantagon, some cat - 127 -