In fairyland, no VIP needed bodyguards. Unlike the USA, the head-of-state could go wherever he wanted whenever he wanted. Besides if anything happened he could just call on his animal friends to help him. Nancy didn't want bodyguards anyway.
Edward's castle seemed so huge. Nancy estimated there had to have been at least three hundred rooms in it. She was really appreciative to have a castle let alone a house at all! What a move from the apartment. Nancy wanted to explore it all, except for the moat…there were trolls down there. Edward was giving Nancy a tour of the castle. They were in the library. How marvelous it was! There were many cherry-wood bookshelves, each around 20 feet high. The room was lined with red carpet and a huge, glass chandelier hung from the ceiling. "Come here, Nancy, I want to show you something," said Edward pointing toward one of the bookshelves. "This is so awesome, what more could I want in a library?" said Nancy to herself. "Watch what happens when I pull this book," said Edward.
Nancy watched as a trap door opened on the floor. Down it was a set of rickety old stares with cob webs all over. Down the stairs seemed a void of darkness. "Wow!" said Nancy looking down them. "I know, I wow everyone." thought Edward.
"I mean that is so neat! I didn't know the castle has secret passageways!"
"Yes there's a lot of them actually. This one leads down to my mother's spell room. I was actually planning on going down there be but I haven't been down there since my father died. I might clean it out and turn it into something like a gymnasium or a pool or something. I was never aloud down there. But now that mother's gone I'd like to see it. Will you come with me, darling?"
Asking Nancy if she wanted to explore a passageway was like asking a kid if they wanted to ride a pink pony. Of course she'd do it. She and Edward excitedly wondered down the wooden steps. Edward pulled a lantern from a hole in the dusty wall.
Nancy held Edward's hand as they tip toed down the endless flight of steep, twisted stairs. Then the lantern went out. "I can't see a thing!" cried Nancy. "Don't worry there's a light down there somewhere."
"Throw my ball!" cried a voice from the darkness.
"What the…aaaaaaaaaaaaaahh!" Nancy screamed as she tripped over something furry and started tumbling down the stares. "Ow! Ow! Ow! Ow!" she cried every time she hit a stair. She landed smack on her face.
"Nancy! Are you okay?" called her husband frantically. Nancy rubbed her bent nose.
"Yeah I'm fine, I think I finally reached the bottom. And I think that dog is following us! Why did we get a dog anyway?"
Edward found a match and lit the lantern.
The room was full of lanterns. Edward started lighting them. Now they could see better. "Wow…look at this place…"
The ceiling must have been 70 feet high, the walls were carved out of a cavern. Everything was dusty. The furniture was twisted. There were all types of weird gadgets and apparatuses. There was a chair with a long thin tub going through it, a spinning wheel with a giant prick on it, a meat hook attached to a pulley and a pillory attached to a wheel.
Edward and Nancy marveled at everything they saw.
"Hey Nancy, come look at this!" Edward said pointing to what looked like a large microwave with a plunger attached to it. "This is my father's duplicating machine! He spend years working on this. I was made to solve the problem of famine."
Edward took a pebble on the ground and put it in the machine. He pressed a couple buttons and then the number 50. Out of the plunger came 50 more pebbles. "You can do that with corn," said Edward.
