(TFT) SOLO III, 011

["David Michael Grouchy II" <david_michael_grouchy_ii@hotmail.com>]

SOLO III
Demon World
Part 011

    Uncle's Lab

  "You have become more aggresive."  Rebecca says.  "Or you were showing 
more restraint before you died."
  "Ada steps forward and says "You must not remember why Uncle never 
attacked the throne before now."  She is looking at the floor, but talking 
with her hands.  "The Demon world is gathered by it's dis-loyalty."  Ada 
looks up at Rebecca and you, and says "I feel it's time we take Uncle to his 
workshop."
   Rebecca immediately takes a body posture of disagreement.
   Ada continues "There are plenty of candles for the Demons, they don't 
even know where we are, and the workshop might bring back some more of his 
memory."
   Rebecca steps in front of you "Your secret weapon has always been that 
an attacking demon will stop to put out a candle first.  But we don't need 
them unless their is a chance of them attacking."
   Rebecca pauses for just a second to take a breath.  In the main room 
every child is holding a lit candle and there are thirty more throughout the 
room and in the kitchen.  You have just noticed just how many brackets, 
nooks, and shelves are scattered over all the walls.
   "They have never had cause to come looking for us before."  Rebecca 
continues.  She looks to Ada.  "What if it gets away and tells the others?"
   "We are going to have to break the larger demons sooner or later."  Ada 
gestures to you.  "Uncle always knew this.  Let's take him to the lab.  We 
need to make him younger.  The demons can't recognize him again.  Gail and 
the teachers can finish any lesser demon that is foolish enough to wander in 
here while we are gone."
    You realize there is a stunned heavy silence in the room.  There is an 
uncomfortable adjustment of body language amoung all the children.  They 
give you the impression that many of them used to know you, and have just 
realized you really don't remember anything.  To them, Gail has always had 
permission to watch over everyone while Uncle is in the lab.  They don't 
quite get what this debate is about.

    You take five steps to the back of the kitchen.  On the left of the 
stove, on the wall, is a hook with a hand towel hangging on it.  You reach 
out with your left finger grip the hook and pull.  A one meter section of 
the wall rolls out from the wall and along the side of the stone stove.  The 
back of the stove looks to have very easy access for cleaning.  You step 
through the hole in the wall and can stand up.  Three sides of the back of 
the stove have chuttes with small piles of ashes.

    When Rebbeca follows Ada in she pulls the hatch back along its tracks 
to the closed possition.  Rebecca and Ada have a candle.  It is warm, stuffy 
and dark.  You hear stone moving quickly, a continuous grinding.  Then a 
slap of stone against stone and the noise stops.  A trap door has opened up 
under Rebecca who is hanging by the handle in the back of the meter square 
door.  She lets go and you move closer to see her land three meters down 
standing on a lader.  She climbs another nine meters down the ladder in a 
shaft.
   Ada moves around the side of the trap door, climbs on the ladder and 
goes down.  You follow easily.
   There is another fireplace here directly under the one above and the 
room is about the same size as the access room above.  But at the far end 
this room is the start of a broad spiral stair down.  Rebecca lead the three 
of you down a thousand and one steps with no landings and no pauses.  Your 
legs feel like rubber.
   The fire place continued down as the core of the stair.  At one point it 
has the stone removed and you can see inside.  There are ten different sets 
of jointed pipes going up and down inside.  Made of kiln fired pottery each 
run of pipe is a different diameter.  One almost a half meter across.
    But now down here before the iron door at the bottom, you see nine of 
the pipes follow the floor and go into the wall next to the iron door.  One 
of the pipes feeds a standing wash basin and mirror.
    Ada grabs the huge iron ring in the middle of the iron door.  She 
starts teaching "Four-pin the Gadget Maker made all these devices for you 
before he died."  The huge iron door is in a corner of the room but on the 
right wall of that corner.  Now it comes away from the wall and then rolls 
to the side on the left wall.  Inside are colored lights, glass containers, 
and books.

David Michael Grouchy II

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