Lilliput by Sam Gayton

Author:Sam Gayton
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781849399784
Publisher: Andersen Press Ltd

Lily couldn’t believe it. The children knew about Gulliver too!

She looked out across the room she now found herself in. It was dark and cold. A few slugs crawled over the stones. Lily past piled-up sacks of cocoa beans, startling ants into cracks and woodlice into little balls, until suddenly she arrived at the foot of the stairs.

They loomed up into the darkness – each step an impossible climb. It would have been easy if Finn were there. Without him Lily would need the wings of a bird, or the legs of a spider …

Or the slime of a slug.

She sprinted back to them. Huge, grey, quivering things. They reminded her of Mr Plinker’s tongue. She shuddered. But there was no other way to climb those stairs …

Tugging up her sleeves, Lily rolled over one of the slugs and coated her hands and feet with slime. It glooped between her fingers and squelched between her toes.

‘Sorry,’ she told the helpless creature. ‘I don’t like this any more than you do.’

Finally she rolled the slug back over and rushed to the stairs. The gunk was already beginning to stick, and her feet left sticky strands on the stone as she ran.

By the time she reached the staircase the slime was a thick glue. Lily rested her palm against the wooden step.

Please work, she thought. Please stick.

It did. The glue made climbing easy. Lily pulled herself up the sheer side, arm over arm, leg over leg, up and up. In no time at all she stood on the first step, looking at the second and the third and fourth and all the way to the top.

‘Only another twelve to go,’ Lily said, hoping the slime would stick for that long.

And she climbed onwards, to the giggles and voices.

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