"Still, I think it's only fair I thank you for looking after me…" Her eye-line turned slightly toward Boober's spot with a glint of mischiefness. "Mocmoc, shall we sing for them?"
"Mocmoc?" Boober asked, finally turning a bit to look at the scene behind him.
With a sleepy sound like the scratch of an untuned violin the contants of the traveling bag uncoiled itself, snaking it's way up the side of the bedframe.
Red let out a surpized scream, leaping up into a shocked looking Gobo's arms.
The creatures long body was twice the length of a large fraggle while being only the width of a particularly fat radish, it's legless form covered from head to end with thick fuzzy fur in horizontal blue and white rings.
The violin like sound came again, this time low and mellow, as it went to rest it's eyeless head in the blue fraggles lap, the loose hole lined silver collar around it's neck catching the light.
"Good boy!" Bimsy said, turning her head in Boober's direction.
The beaming smile the little green fraggle had at the sight of the worm was cut short with all the self control he seemed able to muster up as he turned toward the wall again.
Mocmoc sniffed the air, a long blue tongue suddenly hanging out of its' hidden jaws lined with four sets of teeth as it caught a scent and jerked its head toward Boober's spot with a happy screech before being reined in by his mistress.
"No, Mocmoc, no. Boober doesn't want to see us…"
The worm let out an unhappy high long tone that made everyone around it but the two siblings hold their ears before it shank into the covers.
"Oh the poor thing.." Mokey interjected, petting the nearest length of its bushy coat.
Meanwhile, it was taking all of Red's self control to not scream again where she still up in Gobo's arms, nearly strangling him in a silent attempt to climb onto his head.
"Sc..screaming..i..ic..ice…worm!" She managed at last to get the words out before Gobo set her trembling body down gently with a fed up sigh.
"Red, this is silly, it's only a little one, a baby!" Gobo said with a reasonable nod, reaching out a hand to pat it as Red zipped behind him. "Why, I bet it's not even a hundred years old yet."
"I don't care if it's still in its' egg Gobo! Some people are afraid of bugs, and mice and creepy crawlys..Well, mine is ice worms..Everyone knows they eat fraggles and use our bones as toothpicks!"
"Aw, I'm not afraid, see Red?" Wembley said with a helpful grin, lining up his head to the puzzled looking monster's jaws "Its' mouth is too tiny to swallow us yet.."
"There's no need to be afraid, Mocmoc is a domesticated vegan ice worm." Bimsy said with a smile, rubbing behind one of the two long white feelers on his head and sending him into a low deep scratching purr again.
"Sure..that's what Mokey said about her pet plant Lanford; but that never stops him from trying to chew on me every chance he gets like I'm dipped in radish gravy…" Red said, sticking out her tongue in the worms' line of sight from beyond the edge of her living orange shield.
Mocmoc hissed, causing everyone to cover their ears again and Red to dive to hide her face in Gobo's fur.
"Well, I think he's very cute…" Mokey added, her cheerful tone smoothing over the scene. "All he needs is a little understanding…"
In the background Boober had returned to smiling wishfully at the little worm to, much to Red's frustration and Bimsy's amusement.
"Yes, I guess it is just you and I after all, Mocmoc…" Bimsy said sadly as the worm seemed to have heard some sort of unspoken que, slipping the length of half of the silver collar infront of it's mouth and beginning to play.
"Hey, a harmonica collar, neato!" Wembley exclaimed softly as a hush fell over the room.
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