{"id":365,"date":"2026-01-03T20:35:37","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T20:35:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/piers-anthony-xanth-03-castle-roogna-anthony-piers\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T20:35:37","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T20:35:37","slug":"piers-anthony-xanth-03-castle-roogna-anthony-piers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/piers-anthony-xanth-03-castle-roogna-anthony-piers\/","title":{"rendered":"Piers, Anthony – Xanth 03 – Castle Roogna – Anthony, Piers"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Millie the ghost was beautiful. Of course, she wasn’t a ghost any more, so
\nshe was Millie the nurse. She was not especially bright, and she was hardly
\nyoung. She was twenty-nine years old as she reckoned it, and about eight hundred
\nand twenty-nine as others reckoned it: the oldest creature currently associated
\nwith Castle Roogna. She had been ensorcelled as a maid of seventeen, eight
\ncenturies ago, when Castle Roogna was young, and restored to life at the time of
\nDor’s birth. In the interim she had been a ghost, and the label had never quite
\nworn off. And why should it? By all accounts she had been a most attractive
\nghost.<\/p>\n

Indeed, she had the loveliest glowing hair, flowing like poppycorn silk to
\nthe dimpled backs of her… knees. The terrain those tresses covered in passing
\nwas-was-how was it that Dor had never noticed it before? Millie had been his
\nnurse all these years, taking care of him while his parents were busy, and they
\ntended to be busy a great deal of the time.<\/p>\n

Oh, he understood that well enough. He told others that the King trusted his
\nparents Bink and Chameleon, and anyone the King trusted was bound to be very
\nbusy, because the King’s missions were too important to leave to nobodies. All
\nthat was true enough. But Dor knew his folks didn’t have to accept all those
\nvery important missions that took them all over the Land of Xanth and beyond.
\nThey simply liked to travel, to be away from home. Right now they were far away,
\nin Mundania, and nobody went to Mundania for pleasure. It was because of him,
\nbecause of his talent. Dor remembered years ago when he had talked to the double
\nbed Bink and Chameleon used, and asked it what had happened overnight, just from
\nidle curiosity, and it had said-well, it had been quite interesting, especially
\nsince Chameleon had been in her beauty stage, prettier and stupider than Millie
\nthe ghost, which was going some. But his mother had overheard some of that
\ndialogue, and told his father, and after that Dor wasn’t allowed in the bedroom
\nany more. It wasn’t that his parents didn’t love him, Bink had carefully
\nexplained; it was that they felt nervous about what they called “invasion
\nof privacy.” So they tended to do their most interesting things away from
\nthe house, and Dor had learned not to pry. Not when and where anyone in
\nauthority could overhear, at any rate. Millie took care of him; she had no
\nprivacy secrets. True, she didn’t like him talking to the toilet, though it was
\njust a pot that got emptied every day into the back garden where dung beetles
\nmagicked the stuff into sweet-smelling roses.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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