![]() I shouldn’t think so, she said, though perhaps we’d better go a little faster anyway. Little by little, Moomintroll began to feel anxious, and he asked his mother in a whisper 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 out searching for a snug, 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 moved tiny dots of cold green. 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. ![]()
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