Perla Vardo, The Forgotten Toy (Part 2)

The old house, an old mansion really, seemed to never be quite the same when Perla went exploring (which wasn't a uncommon thing for him to do, the daily routine of living with other toys could often get boring). Where he once could of sworn was a bedroom, was suddenly, the next time he came through, a hallway. Still, he always managed to find his way back to the nursery, where all the toys lived. One day, Perla was exploring. This probably had something to do with the fact that the other toys were quite annoyed at him at the time (the kewpie doll said that his eye would never be the same after the nitric acid incident).

As he weaved his way through the twisted hallways, he came across a trail of liquid soap. He bent down to smell it; lemon scented. The trail lead to giant door that he was sure he had never seen before. He hopped up, and tried to catch the metal ring that served as the door handle in his teeth. Finally, after much difficulty (it was a heavy door), he managed to open the entrance. He looked into the half-darkness, and from the light that filtered in behind him, he saw what looked to be a giant spiraling slide that seemed to go down for miles and miles. The trail of lemon soap covered the entire slide, all the way to the bottom.

As he was pondering what to do, Perla inched forwards to see all that he could. Suddenly, his yellow foot slipped on some of the soap. He landed on his bottom, and the next thing he knew, the air was whooshing past him as he went down the side. The high velocity of his body surprised him; he had no idea that anyone could go so fast! When he finally got to the bottom of the slide, he was a little discombobulated, and he was also wondering if the soap stains would ever get out of his fabric body.

The giant cavern had very little light: besides the spot of light at the the top of the slide where he had come from, there were some torches mounted about four metres up the wall. The fiery light gave the giant cave quite a atmosphere, although the flames themselves disturbed Perla a good bit (flammable toys are very cautious among fire, for obvious reasons).