After gliding along thanks to GlideMint, we were starting to get to the deepest part of George’s mine when we heard some funny noises.
They sounded a bit like somebody crying.
We needed to slow down and walk the rest of the way, and luckily the GlideMint powers ran out at this point, so we were able to stop for a bit.
Jenny had knocked into quite a lot of stuff while getting the hang of GlideMint for the first time, and she asked if she could borrow my BrushShovel to fix her hair.
Unfortunately for her, I had investigated quite a bit of George’s mine as we’d been gliding along by shoving the shovel into the side walls and seeing what they were made of. So there was quite a significant danger that Jenny’s hair would end up worse rather than better.
But she didn’t have to worry, as instead I lent her my BrushBound.
BrushBound is a combination hairbrush and book, which allows you to brush your hair and read a book.
But obviously not at the same time.
I waited while Jenny brushed her hair and then brushed up on thermodynamics.
Then we walked on to the next part of the cave.
There was George.
He obviously wasn’t crying, as his face was dry and no water was coming out of his eyes. And I’m sure the tissue he had in his hand had just been for blowing his nose and had nothing to do with drying his face.
“What’s up, George?” I asked.
“Why have you gone missing?” Jenny asked.
“Oh, it’s only that I built an amazing mine that was going really well and was the furthest along out of all three of your, Zargoid 5’s and my mines, but then I realised that I had accidentally put it in the wrong place. If I kept drilling, I wouldn’t get to the centre of the Earth but to the other side. It was all at the wrong angle.”
“Oh,” said Jenny.
“Ah,” I said.
“Yeah,” he said.
We all thought about how unfortunate that would be for a while and decided it would be quite bad.
“That would be quite unfortunate,” said Jenny.
“That would be quite bad,” I said.
“Bad enough to justify tricking Zargoid 5 into going on holiday and tricking you into selling me your mine so I could still win?” asked George.
I didn’t understand what he was saying.
“I don’t understand what you are saying,” I said.
He and Jenny tried to explain it all again to me, but I had to stop them.
“No, no, no... you aren’t remembering it correctly. Zargoid 5 decided to go on holiday himself, and I accidentally sold you my mine.”
Once I’d explained it, George seemed a lot happier, but Jenny still seemed to be a bit confused.
So I said to George, “Well, if your mine won’t work, why don’t you give me back my mine and come and work with me on my mine, and we’ll dig to the centre of the Earth together?”
“OK,” said George.
But Jenny said, “We might have to rescue Zargoid 5 before we start.”
And she was right.
Note to self: I wonder why George had got so confused about what had happened.
