A hidden room, the Gold Room is adorned with gold candle fixtures on either side, and a gold plated wooden table in the center. Riches lay all around the room and on top of the table. Here can be found the crowns of past kings and the royalty of conquered nations.
Gold Room, Inside Tower
servant
a rat chews on a dropped hymnbook
I stick to the edge, nose up and ready for any morsels that may drop my way. Or sometimes they don't, but I often don't know until my jaws are upon it. A hunk of moldy crust, the edge of a dropped hymnbook, it is all fair game.
This hymnbook is very tasty and is high in fiber. It that a talking rat?  I must be losing my senses. Huh, I never knew humans could speak rat. I didn't know that a rat could understand a human.  Well little rat...that book is for singing...not for eating. No, that can't be right.  Things that are for eating taste good, and this tastes good. Hmmm...you have a point.  Did I hear you talking with that cat over there?  The other day the cat talked to me and I again thought I was losing my senses. Him?  Oh yeah, he and I are best buds.  He's too lazy to chase me, but everyone thinks he's taking care of the so-called "rat problem." Well looking at that hymnbook I'd say there is a rat problem. If the Queen sees you then you may be in a stew. Not to worry, just give me a few minutes and I will eat the rest of the evidence. *munch* Well I have to get about my cleaning.  You are making a mess.  Clean up the scraps that are scattered on the floor around you.  The royal family will be here soon. I shall eat with ever increasing rapidity. *chew* *munch* *swallow* Have you seen anything that needs shining.  I want everything to sparkle before the Royal Family arrives.