"Come now, people, come behold, the midget as he digs for gold!" The shout made Beeri stir from his uncomfortable sleep on the cage floor. He grudgingly started to get to his feet. The first few days of his imprisonment he had attempted to resist when the show was announced; stubbornly maintaining his lying position, but he had quickly found out that it only made things worse. The show was about to begin. "Kilmorph, give me strength" he muttered under his breath, as Perpentach went on with his announcement: "A brilliant light in darkness shines, a piece of gold in muddy mines!"