Looking around and cleaning

After breakfast Elm decided to have another look around the house. He only got around the main areas of the front of the place yesterday but he wanted to check what was deeper inside. As he started moving further into the heart of the grand place it stuck with him how big it was, looking down the endless hallways that retreated into darkness. Who knew what lay hidden in those shadows? The thought sent a shiver down Elm's back for some reason. Still, as he moved down the hallways most of the space was just empty bedrooms. They were all the same as if someone just copy and pasted them all.

As he continued to walk down just one of the hallways he started to notice the almost impossible length of this hallway. It must have been a good thirty minutes of just pure walking. He hadn't really taken a good look at the building, but he was sure it wasn't this big. Even now as he walked forwards, the hallway continued to stretch forever on.

After about two more hours of just wandering down one single hallway, he found a stone door quite out of place from the rest of the wooden interior. Curious he opened the door and found himself stepping into a very tall stone stairway. It was in the style of that of a medieval castle, and as he looked up it seemed to stretch upwards to the heavens endlessly and the same downwards. How the fuck was that possible, the building was big, but it had to be at most four maybe pushing five stories on the outside. He would have been pretty sure to notice if there was just a tower poking out of it. This place was beginning to make less and less sense.

Elm made a mental note of the tower and to check more about this later, he was kind of getting bored going through the same stuff over and over again. He just thought it would more or less be the same just medieval this time. He decided that he would go back to his room and play some video games or something for the rest of the day.

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Zelda had found her way into some storage area. Those weird flimsy pale brown boxes were shoved into shelves that lined the walls and room in rows. She wasn't sure if she should do something in here, but there was a noticeable layer of dirt over the entire floor in there. She sighed and just decided it would be better to do so than not.

Zelda didn't mind cleaning stuff, she was always sure to clean up after herself even back at the castle. The idea of someone picking up after her was just something she didn't like. Though to think that she would become a person that would do that wasn't something she was super into either. But she couldn't fight back against the latter, at least Elm was nice to her and all.

Looking across the labeling of the boxes as she cleaned the floor she saw one labeled animals and one engineering. Her interest was piqued as she saw the labeling of the boxes. She was definitely into the two studies, partly because she had to be, but she also just loved learning that kind of stuff. Pulling them out and looking inside she saw stacks of all kinds of books on the subjects. She wondered if she could get Elm to allow her to keep some of them, she was pretty sure he would say yes.

There was a loud thud that reverberated deeper within the room. Instinctively Zelda held out her hand and it glowed slightly in a warm yellow color. She paused for a second looking at this, he really did do it. The light glowing on her hand quickly fizzled out as there was now some kind of scraping noise.

Zelda quickly grabbed the broom she had been using to clean the floor to investigate what was doing this. Moving to the other side of the room, a box had fallen to the floor spilling all of its contents out. Zelda didn't exactly know what this stuff was but the box was labeled sex toys. She huffed to herself and picked up all of the stuff that was spilled, pausing at this slick rubber replica of a penis. Without much thought, she just shoved it into her pocket and put the box back, planning to ask Elm about it.

Zelda immediately got the distinct feeling of her being watched, sending her to stiffen her back. Looking quickly around she saw an ajar door and two glinted yellow eyes peering from the darkness. As soon as she made contact with their eyes the creature scuttled away farther into the room. Oh neat! I am going to be able to deal with an animal from here, I wonder what it is going to be Zelda thought happily to herself. But first is first, unfortunately. She then proceeded to go back to cleaning the room.