`` now see here , dark , i do n't think i like your tone , '' interjected simple , face red and puffing , he struggled mightily to stand up , stubby arms and legs straining and wheeling about impotently like the legs of a turtle flipped over to an unlikely angle , and straining against gravity grown monstrously strong , but seemed to be on the verge of actually standing when dark waved his hand in the air and snapped his fingers .