As long as her two dolls, Calca and Brina, held out, she would have too much protection, being a princess guarded by every guard in the castle. Her father was a bit too protective, so of course, she wanted to leave, and her father wouldn't let her. She knew where the armor was, and where the underground tunnel was, so she could leave whenever she wanted. After getting armor by using the female doll, Brina, to make herself invisible, she went to the door to the underground base.
"You look too short, and too small, to be a dwarf warrior. You must be Luca, aren't you?" the guard asked her.
Of course, she thought, my father would have a guard who memorizes my exact proportions. "No, sir," she said, "I'm a new warrior, a warrior in training, and to be an official one, His Majesty King Giott told me I had to survive the trip halfway to the Tower of Babil and back," she responded. "So I'll just be on my way."
"I'm sorry, sir, but entrance has been restricted to adult dwarves."
Oh really. Can't I just be a small adult? Who looks female? …Of course not. My father is too protective of me for that to be possible. I just hope there isn't an actual dwarf warrior in training the size of me who isn't allowed entrance. "Well then, sir, I'm sorry for the inconvenience." As she walked back to the armor room, she saw a dwarf boy who appeared to be only slightly older than her putting armor on.
"Oh, hello. Are you the princess? I've never seen a princess before. Are you a warrior in training, like me? Why would a princess be allowed to be a warrior? I've never-"
Luca interrupted the boy. "Shut up you idiot, I'm not supposed to be here in the first place," she almost yelled at him, before realizing she shouldn't.
Her father stepped into the room. "Luca! What are you doing?! You know you aren't supposed to leave the castle," he yelled at her.
She flinched. "Just taking the armor off, father, they wouldn't let me through-"
"Well, good, now be quiet and go to your room."
She obeyed, but since Brina, who somehow always knew what Luca needed her to do, was there, she managed to get some invisible armor up to her room. "It's not fair," she complained to her father, "that all dwarves are strong but you treat me as though I am a goblin, and not even a captain. Just a weak stupid goblin! Let me do something and maybe it'll show you that I can do something." She slammed the door. "Well at least I have you two dolls Calca and Brina. Maybe I can edit your machinery a bit and make you stronger."
After a while, and lots of broken wires, and a lot of malfunctions, and once almost getting killed by a messed up targeting system, it was done. The Calcabrina doll. She didn't want the dolls to be found together, and they had useful abilities on their own anyway, so she separated them.
Finally, my father will let me out of my room. She went to the main hall, and realized her dolls were missing. A group of five people passed through, people because they were obviously not dwarves.
"I'm Luca. Have you seen my dolls?" A short introduction. They did not respond, although the one woman did look at her with slight pity. A while later, the older man came running out. "What are you doing?" He ignored her. Of course. Nobody has time for the weak dwarven princess who only cares about dolls. She waited even longer. Someone came in with her dolls and started to explain something, but she didn't listen because her interest had been piqued by something else. A woman wearing all green with green hair had come running through, not looking at anyone. Luca hid behind the throne room door to investigate.