Everyone suddenly ran outside after Kel, who had her griffin feathers. She grabbed the real Neal (haha, the real Neal) and yelled "WHY ARE YOU RUNNING AROUND SCREAMING YOUR HEAD OFF!"
"Because," explained Neal, "I lost my gate key!"
"What gate key?" said Seaver.
"My lord?" Neal said to Raoul. "Rip his arms off!"
"Oh, you mean this gate key," said Seaver, giving Neal the key. Neal then skipped off happily singing about eggnog. (AN It's regular eggnog!)
"AHH!" yelled Daine, running outside way after everyone else. "IT'S THE R.O.U.S-ES! RUN!"
So of course everyone ran, not bothering to ask what R.O.U.S.-es were and why they should run from them. The R.O.U.S.-es were confused about why everyone was running awa from them. They were a troupe of traveling bards and actors, so, having nothing else to do, started singing and line-dancing to "Lexi the Miser."
Meanwhile, up in the library…
"Myles!" yelled Lord Wyldon. "Are moles rodents?"
"I don't know!" yelled Myles. So they began scouring the library to find a book that would tell them if moles were rodents. Music floated up to them from the yard outside, where the R.O.U.S.-es were still singing:
Lexi the miser was a mean and greedy soul,
With a corn-cob pipe and a button nose and two eyes made out of coal…
"Find anything, Myles?"
"Only this one book," shrugged Wyldon, "But I don't think it'll help."
Myles grabbed the book. It was called Moles And Other Rodents.
AN Thank you to everyone who reviewed, I'm not going to look up all of your names just now, but thank you thank you thank you!
Sorry if moles aren't rodents, I had no idea.
Oh, and I don't own any of Tamora Pierce's characters or The Princess Bride! Events are in no specific order.