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"A hole that goes down into the Bottomless Pit. The badder part of the Dreamlands," Lapis clarifies for the edification of others. "This is already a faerie grove the goblins are just trying to make it WORSE and they need nightmares to do it."

And burying kids alive in this weird surreal pocket of unreality seems like a pretty solid way to get some nightmares.

The sword cuts through the lock exactly like pudding.

Imagine swinging a sword an a big pile of pudding. What happens?

The pudding makes a goopy sound and gets shifted around a bit but is otherwise unbothered by the sword.

The reaction from the chest is pretty similar. Goopy sounds and the lock splatting a bit. That's unexpected. Also unexpected is the chest abruptly opening up to reveal a mouth full of shark teeth as it sprouts legs like a sea-robin and tries taking a bite out of Siana's legs. Given that Siana is a little limpy it may be difficult for her to get out of the way in time.

TALBot, meanwhile, shoves another goblins out of the way and-

Wait.

Where the heck did the goblins go?

And where did those brambles all over the beach come from? Don't brambles know that they aren't salt tolerant?