Sunday, 12
September
We're off to rescue the princess. There is a
house with a humungous store of autonite and Princess Henrietta.
Prince Steffan's sister came up with a plan to go in and see the
princess and get her out. Willamina and I are to be her maids and
Salmaline and George are to be footmen. Hopefully we'll be able
to get her out before things start blowing up.
--Later--
We were met by a little black man. He was kind of the same height
as the man in the dragon's cavern but looks more like the little man at
either the clockwork or the toy makers. I don't seem to remember
which. Anyway, we were led to a parlor and then locked in.
But we went out on the veranda and took a walk. Then the little
man suddenly appeared in front of us with a refreshment
tray. I told them not to eat the honey. He turned to me and
said, in English, that the honey wasn't poisoned and that he was not
Holleybush and. Well, how did he know about the dragon
cavern? This is bad! We tried to tell the man that we would go
back and have refreshements after the princess had her walk. The
little man got kind of agitated. Later, Wilamina told me that he
was telling us we would go back, the prince wanted us, and that we
would go if he had to drag us.
Then a gun went off and chaos broke loose.
The little man splattered onto Wooster and someone else that came out
of the bushes with him. Willamina tried to get me to take the
princess and everyone else to safety while she went into the
house. I wasn't having any of that and followed her.
We climbed up the wall and into a man's study with maps. And
proceeded to chase Willamina down a hall. We kicked in a door to
find Prince what's his name grabbing Princess Gabriella and sliding
down a zip line. And Willamina followed. I had to!
I'm sure the trip was short, but it seemed to take forever. As we
flew through the opening of the boat house, there was so much to try
and take in. Lady C was picking up a gun, Prince Hinerick's arm
and gun was flying up and being caught by someone who was already
aiming a gun at pring Hinerick. Princess Garbiella was facing
prince Hinerick and had a useful handful of trouser. Good girl!
And then I realized that there weren't breaks on this zip line.
Wooster was also down there some where. I closed my eyes and
dropped, intending to tumble. Wooster got himself tangled in the
tumble. We landed with me on top and him keeping me from falling
in the lake. This boat house has holes in the floor. What a
horribly maintained structure!
We heard Lady C start yelling about running. We had to get out of
the hole before we could run. I was struggling to get up when Mr.
Bay was suddenly there with a helping hand. He's as good as Mr.
Cain that way. We made it out of the boat house in time to see
Wilamina taking off with her rocket pants. She IS bound and
determined to get away from me. I began to chase. Then Sir
Cosmo and Lady also went over. Shortly after, there was a series
of booms and a bright flash of light and a big boom.
I finally caught up to Wilamina and the Cosmos. Galen was telling
Sir Cosmo about the adventure. Wilamina was sitting
quietly off to the side. I went over and stood by her and started
working on my sword edge. This sword is ok, but has been sitting
in a dragon's horde for a long time and needs so much work. Mr.
Salmaline and George found us as I was remembering that I should tell
Sir Cosmo about all the maps that we ran by in the house. We all
got up and headed back that way. We got there just as several
soldiers were carrying Atlas into the house. He looked
pretty badly injured. Victoria was headed in as well but looking
very tired. She asked if I would be willing to watch both her
and Atlas while they slept. Another good opportunity to
work on my sword edge. This is going to take forever.
Atlas finally woke up. He started muttering and rumbling and Mrs.
Samaline woke up. He seems to have done some dreaming. I
didn't understand everything he said except something about someone not
being all the way dead and it wasn't Hugo. Mrs. Cuthbert started
one of her sessions and was talking with one of the murder victims when
Mrs. Frazer and Mrs. Samaline and Mrs. Cuthbert all started
yelling about the children and danger and we were suddenly off and on
our way back to the lodge.
--later--
Well. Poor Mr. Cuthbert has quite the repair bill. Another
demi-god wolf and his minions attacked. The children all did very
well and barricaded themselves in the nursery. Many of the house
guards got hit by a sleep spell and were out cold. Poor Aaron got
injured slightly. Lord Grayminster (!) was also injured. George
somehow managed to get here ahead of time and did something with one of
the ghost fathers. He got a bit injured too. And we found a
man/wolf stuck to the wall of the armory with a gob of gob gun goo and
Owen sitting on the gob gun and mr. Samaline. Wilamina started
going off about doing experiments on the thing. I wouldn't let
her. She told me later she was just trying to intimidate
it. I never know when she's bluffing or telling the truth.
She went off to find Sir Cosmo to ask permission. When we got
back, the werewolf had escaped and knocked Mrs. Samaline out.
Mrs. Cuthbert helped her wake up, but when Mrs. Samaline tried to start
chanting to do another spell, Mrs. Cuthbert helped her fall asleep
again.
We've all had a very long day. There is a Russian Embassy ball
tomorrow evening that Wilamina is dying to go to. I better get to
sleep now because tomorrow is also going to be a really long day.
And we have a 3rd werewolf trying to attack us, and, more importantly,
the children. Yarg.
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