Chapter 3 Explorations of the Castle
Star and Methlaude reach the end of the long, wide hall. Not another soul is in sight; although, that was usuall for the empty castle. They are in a three sided square room. Slightly wider than the dimentions of the hallway. The roof is much lower than the halls. One wall opens directly to the hall. On the right, is the base of a set of read stairs meeting the corners of the room perfectly. The wall across from the stairs holds a small rounded door. The third wall hangs an intracate tapastry of crimsons, golds, and, greens.
"Go take a bath. Wash off that layer of dirt. I'll have Glaetta come up to help you ready."
"Yes Methlaude" The girls sighs and starts up the long stairs.
The entire castle was designed by her father, Volney Rain. He was the court artist for the palace of Tortall. His secondary castle served as a retreat for him when duties were overwelming. His main castle is conveniently planted in the center of, Samette, the capitol town. He decorated it with an artists tastes in furniture, and design.
Star named her castle Birds Eye. Eventually, the villiage children she played with adopted the castles name, and the entire villiage soon did. The villige of Chinelree centers around a town fire. Everynight the large fire was lit for families to cook there food, and eat tgether with neigbors.
At a certain point the packed dirt road became stones. This was the castle district. Villigers rarly came to complain, but when they did, they spoke to ambassador Villert. Villert of Kalin, ambassador from Kalin, volunteered to take care of the castle and town. He was a slightly round man of his fifties. His brown steaked hair showed signs of his age for he was bald on top. He wore common clothes and was fond of the villige people, the castle servants, and Star.
Star looks up at the dim lamps overhead. These stairs were wide at the bottom floor, where the hall was. they graduatly got less wide untill they could barely fit two people across. The roof of the stairs at the the bottom was so low, lamps could not be hung there. The roof gradually got higher untill, on the second floor, it was as high as the dining room ceiling, three floors high. The stairs open to a small hallway. Its walls are red fabric, ornamented with wall hangings in greens and grays. The gold light fixtures radiate light onto the equally tall, but considerably thinner hall. Four thin cherry tables protrude from the walls at intervals. Mirrors framed in gold are place on the wall above them. The deep crimson carpet ends at a set of menecing wooden doors. Star touches one of the richly carved gold handles, and pushes. The door opens silently, admitting her into the dining room.
Entering the dining room always gave Star the chills. It was the emptiest, coldest room in the castle. The room's ceiling was as high as the ceilings of the third floor. On the side walls, large rectangluar windows, indentical to those in the downstairs hall, gave light to the dreary room. Like most of the rest of the castle, the stone walls were bare. An dark cherry table sits center in the room, surrounded by chairs with gold upholstery. Niether the table nor chairs have any intricate designs on them. On the ceiling, a gold chandelier hangs. It is very large, but has few candles on it. Most rest of the light comes from the windows, or light fixtures lining the walls. A small, in comparison to the room, stone fireplace burns at the end of the table. At the opposite of the fireplace is a small room decorated like the red hall. The main set of straight scarlett stairs go down to an underground social room, that extends into the rock garden, as Star called it. Two other smaller stairs curve around and up, like a tower, to the third floor. Star takes the one on the right.
