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They do not think to grab the king and queen as hostages because they are desperate to find Irene. They search and Lootie will not leave Curdie’s side. She knows a good thing when she sees it. They route out remaining goblins. Irene’s room is a mess. Curdie is determined to find Irene.

Curdie is indeed the sun, sulpher, active, and red in this furious battle. Harelip grabs Lootie (pathetic--he can keep her LOL) and she screams. Curdie slashes the queen in the face, chases Harelip, stomps his feet, grabs Lootie, and drags her back to the cellar. The queen is furious (flashing GREEN LIGHT from her eyes). When the queen, king, and their bodyguards see the captain is men, they flee.

In the cellar, Curlie hears a hubbub and when he checks, the quick-witted butler is serving goblins wine to get them drunk. In the corner, servants are shaking in fear. Curdie does not see Irene and he is furious. He tells them to stomp on the goblins’ feet. The hurting goblins go limping back to their caves slowly. The queen returns with a group and she gets a stomp on Curdie. She can’t grab him due to his knife.

The goblins run in terror at the thought of having their feet stamped. The king and queen are on top of the captain. Curdie faces off with the queen who fears his shoes with their iron nails. He’s too fast for her and he stomps her skin-shod foot. She howls and runs off. The guards rush in and the king runs off. Curdie asks where the princess is and nobody knows. They search every room and she is gone.

The place is covered in goblins. It reminds me of the mines of Moria for some reason. Between his rhymes, weapons, ands stamping of feet, goblins flee in terror. The captain and his men are not doing well for they do not know how to fight the goblins and the queen is there with her big shoes. Curdie whirls into the room. The queen is outraged when she hears the rhymes about her. Then he yells to stomp on their feet.

Then the lock clicks and the door opens. Irene’s grandmother comes in with a silver box and she takes out the roses and begins to heal his leg. She waves her hands over him three times and he has the most refreshing sleep he ever had. The boots pounding on the casement wakes up Curdie. It’s night and the moon shines. He gets up and grabs his clothes and weapons and tools. He runs out his door and starts chanting.

Ch. 27 In his dreams, Curdie relieves everything that has happened since he met Irene. The noise wakes him up and he gets up out of bed. Or so he thinks. It’s like when I would dream I had turned off the alarm and it didn’t stop. Then I pulled the plug out and it kept going. I would take out the batteries and it would go on. Smashing the alarm failed. It happens twenty times! Then something odd happens.

All the goblins, including the queen, head to the castle, hopeful that Irene will be in their hands that night. She is very umcomfortable: one foot has a skin shoe to hide her toes and the other, her stone shoe.

The captain does not even remember what Curdie had told him because he never believed it to begin with. The goblins had removed a large block from the cellar that shook the foundation. They did not blast it but it rolled and hit the foundation of the house. They are afraid that people will be alarmed so they are very quiet and wait. After they break into the king’s wine cellar, they run back to the goblin king.

Ch. 26 The household staff talks about the loud noises. It is too loud for rats and their two cats take care of them. They wonder if it’s the miners who have punched a hole so that the noise hits them more clearly. They think it sounds like an army but NOBODY is putting two and two together. It is an army! During the night, one explosion is so loud that they all think it’s a one in one hundred years earthquake.