The door into the Fifth Treasure Room opens soundlessly (magic door seldom creak, after all) and Cimorene steps through first. Though it's been considerably reorganized since Cimorene first began her work in the Mountains of Morning, it's still mostly a giant pile of, well, of treasure. At least the suits of armour are nicely polished ( Read more... )

Breakfast at the castle of the Enchanted Forest is a fairly casual affair, and Cimorene wanders downstairs into the kitchen as has become her habit these past few days ( Read more... )

Cimorene wanders in from outside carrying her sword. And observant person might conclude that she's been exercising, and that person would, in fact, be correct. She's been working quite hard on the lessons Mendanbar gave her, and her swordwork really has improved over the last couple of months, if she does say so herself ( Read more... )

The door opens and Cimorene and Mendanbar step through. Cimorene looks around and sighs with evident relief to see that they're back in Mendanbar's attic.

She turns quickly to Mendanbar. They haven't any time to waste. "Now, how do we find Kazul? You said you could find her with magic once you were here, right?

As they approach the small cottage, Cimorene notices curiously that it seems to have rather more windows than is generally considered normal. It almost has more windows than wallspace to hold them, but before she can comment on this fact to Mendanbar a small blonde girl dashes out from behind the house with an older boy in pursuit. She stares at ( Read more... )

"Ah, cave sweet cave," murmurs Cimorene with a smile as she and Mendanbar step through the door from Milliways into Kazul's fifth treasure room ( Read more... )

Things were definitelynot going according to plan.

She had thought that she had planned her journey well enough. She'd had a weapon, she'd left someone responsible in charge, she'd very nearly had a reliable form of transportation...

Very nearly, it seems, was not enough.

It had been such a good plan, too. How was she to know that Ballimore ( Read more... )

Cimorene enters the bar, sleeves of her rust-colored dress rolled up to the elbows. If her hair is escaping from her small crown a bit more than usual, she doesn't notice.

She receives a cup of tea from the bar and sits down at a small table.

Cimorene steps through the door into Kazul's fifth treasure room, thankful that Mendanbar has agreed to help. She steps aside to let him through.

It has not been a good day for Cimorene.

First, she woke up with cramps.

Then she knocked over a huge pile of goblets while cleaning treasure room 4, which means she has to reorganize the whole thing over again.

Then Antorell showed up, seemingly just to annoy her, so she melted him. Stupid Wizards ( Read more... )