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The Architect of Nonsense:
The Royal Palace is the primary setting of Maid in Fantasy and the home of most of the characters. It’s a massive structure the size of a small city that towers over the rest of New Celene and acts as the seat of government for the kingdom. Its layout makes no logical sense, but that’s by design.
If one were to try and map out all the halls and passageways within its walls, you’d be there for quite a while, bordering on forever. As a magical place at the heart of a magical kingdom, on a hotbed of pure magic, the palace is far from ordinary and is not bound by conventional logic. It is best to think of the area inside its walls as a “flexible space” and that despite already being a massive structure, the interiors are, in fact, bigger on the inside.
That’s how you can have an auditorium that descends so low it should intersect with the basement storehouses, yet it doesn’t. That’s what allows the basement to be a maze of endless halls that loop back in on themselves yet seem to go on forever. That’s how they can fit enough rooms for the royal family, the high nobles, the entire extended Diane family, and most of the Regas family, plus enough soldiers and guards to secure the place, in addition to all the infrastructure to accommodate that number of people (bathrooms, kitchens, dining halls, baths, and laundry, etc.) and still have room for a half dozen grand halls, auditoriums, a garden and tennis courts.
Of course, the palace being as massive as it is, navigating it isn’t as easy as walking from point A to B. There are multiple hovercraft shuttles to move residents between all the major buildings. The workers, however, have the special privilege of accessing the “flexible space” between the walls of the palace (as seen in Chapter V). They’re basically a series of magical passages that act like an elevator, zipping the workers to where they need to be almost instantly. While a convenient tool, it’s only meant to shuttle a handful of people at a time, no more than your average elevator. Thus, they can’t use it to summon a large number of guards to wherever they need them to be.
Besides the obvious residents like the royal family, the Diane family, and the Regas, most high nobles have permanent rooms in the palace. Lady Aphros and Lady Aré’s rooms have already been depicted in the story, but Lady Ze and Lady Herme also reside in the palace. Lady Aphros basically lives at the palace year-round. However, she has personal homes and summer cottages she retires to on occasion. Lady Aré is a more frequent traveler and lives in various homes worldwide, depending on her current duty, and only stays at the palace about half the year overall (but not consecutively). Thanks to her duties, Lady Ze is also in the palace year-round, barring the occasional matter that draws her away for a few weeks every year. Lady Herme spends the least time in the palace and finds herself all over the kingdom with an irregular schedule.
There is more to say about the palace, namely its exact layout, history, and other facts, but that will be saved for another time.
Penelo’s Guide to the High Noble Bathrooms:
A journal recovered from Ms. Penelo Gataki’s bedroom, detailing her experiences with the bathrooms of the high noble she passed through on her quest to clean every toilet in the palace.
Lady Herme: Very clean, orderly. Everything is in neat, organized piles and rows. The towels are organized by size and color. The bathroom is marble-themed, with an extra-large bathtub complete with a bookrack? (Looked like a bookrack, with all the books on it and stuff.)
The toilet was already clean, I kind of felt bad touching it, like I’d made it dirtier than it was before.
Lady Ze: Very simple, open-air eastern-style bathroom. Lots of wood in the design. I think the rugs were made of bamboo. The toilet was also made of bamboo. Had a built-in exercise room, complete with dumbbells (I think they’re broken, the sides said they were 100 kilograms each, but they didn’t feel that heavy…Oh, is that why they’re labeled light exercise?).
Lady Aphros: Really big and glitzy, covered in topaz jewels. Even the toilet was made of gold! Also, everything is seashell-themed: the bathtub is a giant seashell, and the toilet has a seashell cover, top, and handle (and the toilet paper is seashell printed). All the soap is really foamy, even the spare cleaner under the sink made things foam (the sink is also shaped like a seashell, with seashell knobs). The bathtub was more bubbles and foam than water, I think.
Lady Aré: I haven’t figured out how to get in there yet. Lady Aré always yells at me when I try to get in with silly stuff like “How did you get into my closet?” “Why are you coming in through my window?” and “You destroyed my ceiling!” It’s not my fault her front door keeps moving, and it’s easier to get into her room in other ways.
Queen Celene: The Queen says I’m not allowed to talk about her bathroom, no matter how fluffy it may be.
Princess Atlanta: Don’t know it very well, she kept throwing things at me while I was trying to clean it. It’s really pink, though.
Princess Irene: It’s like if pink and a pinker pink had a baby. Also, rabbit-themed everything. (I want to know where they got a rabbit head shaped bathtub, it looks fun!)
Princess ??? (what’s the Second Princess’s name again?): Actually, I haven’t found her room yet…does she have a room? She goes somewhere every night, right?
Lord something or other: Apparently, I wasn’t supposed to be in there because it’s a “crime scene” or something. He has really nice soap, though…
???: I don’t know whose bathroom this was, but it has more seashells than Aphros’s room, oh, and seahorses and dragon designs, too! Lots of mirrors, I think my reflection was looking at me funny.
???: It’s like being on a cloud!
General something or other: Will return, I can’t clean a toilet that’s on the ceiling...yet.
Why is the room all upside down anyway?
???: Why does the bathroom have six clocks and three eerily real-looking skulls?
???: The toilet burned my hand. Why is there a model train in the bathroom?
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90% of the reason I wrote this was for the Penelo's journal section. The palace's architecture is important too, but I just had so much fun writing things from Penelo's perspective.
Until next time, Read, Comment and Enjoy.
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