Moomin: The wishing locket Chapter7

After Sunset
 “It’s getting dark, dear!” Moominmamma told her love as she was flipping pancakes for dinner.
 “And it’s getting cold!” Moominpappa had caught a cold, Moomins can’t stand this kind of cold weather. “Ah choo!”
 “Oh my goodness! We’re out of marmalade and pancake powder!” Moominmamma complained. They only had a few pancakes left, without marmalade.
 “Actually, papa, why is it snowing outside? It’s the night before Midsummer night!
 “I’m not sure, mama.” Moominpappa replied. “It’s just pretty weird!”
 The sun had set, darkness came into hills of Moominvalley. The cold snow and white pine trees was not that white than before. The wind blew lik the lady of the cold sang. Night came. Although there were a few Shadows dancing around the the Midsummer Bonfire, the night woods was still lonely, miserable and filled with darkness. The singing flower sang in the garden of the Hemulen, it was specially clear in the dark winter night.
 The door of the Moominhouse knocked. Moominpappa answered. It was Amber, Amber the Moomin, the Snork Maiden’s best friend.
 “Hullo.” She greeted. “It’s so cold outside!”
 “Oh, poor dear! You just need a bowl of hot reindeer soup!” Moominmamma hugged Amber tightly in her warm arms tightly. She lit a fire up and the three of them sat beside the fireside.
 “Ah! Much better now!” Amber thanked the couple. “But I saw something weird outside.”
 “I wonder what’s going on!” Moomnpappa put his scarf on. Moominmamma held her handbag tightly as she opened the door.
 Amber led the two of them into the Fillyjonk’s house. Inside, the Fillyjonk had used the wishing locket as the laundry line, she was hanging up her dresses, even it was already nightime.
 “Why’s Mrs Fillyjonk doing her laundry at nigh?” Amber frowned.
 “Sorry, Amber dear,” Moominpappa signed. “I have no idea.”
 “Wait, Last time when I saw her doing the laundry at night was the day she brought a new laundry line home, if Fillyjonks found new things, they would use them quickly!” Moominmamma guessed. “Let’s take a closer look!”
 Moominpappa and Amber nodded.
 “Oh! She really got a new laundry line!” Amber said.
 “Wait! Is that the wishing locket?”
 “Papa, seriously? I think you’re jus super worried about Momin and the others.” Moominmamma held his hand.
 “No, dear.” Moominpappa patted her shoulder. “It makes sense, the snow fell on Midsummer night because Meggy and the others must have lost the locket!”
 The Shocking news made the girls frowned again. There was a pause.
 “I better get the wishing locket back, my friends are now in big trouble, even Meggy the Booble girl!” Amber broke the slience first.
 “Amber, the Fillyjonk will probably scold you and make you do her housework at least for five whole years!”
 “It’s okay, if I just ignored it, Snork Maiden and the others will be in real danger!” Amber had already thought of a plan, but not the best plan, at least the Fillyjonk won’t scold her.
 She tiptoed to the front yard gates.
 “Hullo, Mrs Fillyjonk!” she greeted.
 “What’s up, Amber?” the Fillyjonk was in a good mood.
 “Um…I think ‘the laundry line’ that you found was one of our precious items!” Amber tried to explain peacefully.
 The Fillyjonk gone mad, she yelled as her children came out of the house.
 “What’s wrong, mama?” they asked while they stared at Amber with their little eyes.
 “That Moomin told me the laundry line was theirs!” the Fillyjonk pointed at Amber rudely. The childrens’ eyes suddenly lit with anger at Amber.
 “It’s working!” Amber giggled under her breathe. Moominpappa and mama had a worried face, who were peeking out at the fences.
 “Well, I got a better laundry line, maybe let’s have a swamp!” Amber smiled, she knew that the Fillyjonk would accept her idea.
 The Fillyjonk thought that ‘the laundry line’ was actually not very useful and Amber always have great materials.
 “It’s a deal.” The Fillyjonk agreed.
 Amber came out of the yard with the wishing locket. Moominmamma and papa’s worry face had turned into a smile.
 “Oh, I’m super proud of my dear Amber!” Moominmamma hugged her.
 “Great job!”
 “So, can you make me a new one?” Amber asked. “Or maybe let’s fix the locket first and return to the Booble girl.
 “I’m afraid we have to find them in the lonely Mountains, meet us seven in the front yard of the Moominhouse!”
 So, they went home and packed.
 Back at the crystal cave, Meggy and Sniff were still trapped.
 “Still can’t find a way to get out of here!” Sniff complained. The cave was dark, but there was still a few white light shining. The beam got bigger and bigger, brighter and brighter. The cave’s owner had returned, the Hattifaters!
 “Hattifaters?” Sniff was scared.
 “Oh no! Seriously?” The Hattifaters were a group of creatures that had no feelings and no sense, but they had thunder powers.