Carlton was about to answer professor Stewart's inquires but before he had the chance to, she had swept him up in her arms. Why was everyone picking him up and carrying him around? He was now hanging in her arms, squished into a hug.

Carlton liked hugs.

"No, no, no , no, no professor." He shook his head vigorously. "The creature didn't haul me off, the STUDENTS did! I wanted to talk to the creature." His legs dangled in the air as he looked around him. "And I'm not in shock, I am EXCITED." There was a difference. And he really didn't want to go to the hospital wing. He would miss all the fun!

The other kids were falling out through the portal, one by one. And he watched them curiously. They were all so relieved. Was he the only one that thought they should go back at it again?

Then the other professor Stewart was talking to him. Their names confused him but as he hung from the arms of one Stewart, he answered the other one. "I didn't see! That's why I should go back there to find out!" He squirmed a little in the professor's arms but she didn't let him go. "Now it's all alone in there! It was dark and scary, someone should HELP IT!"

Carlton looked over at Zoryn, and beamed at her from the position he was hanging. "We should go BACK!" He called to her.