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he wasn’t about to tell anyoneabout it, not even his beloved queen. Mordonna was overwhelmed when she saw the treasure, but she too decided she would never tell her father. Nevertheless, she did fill her pockets with enough diamonds to keep them for the rest of their lives.
    â€˜So, Vessel, you can tell my mother to tell my father I shall never return to the castle until he gives our love his blessing.’
    â€˜Well, your wonderful mother, my divine Queen, sends you her blessing and says she will do all she can to help you,’ said Vessel. ‘But I fear, young mistress, that nowhere in Transylvania Waters will be safe for you to hide. Your father will never accept this liaison. He planned to sell you in marriage to Prince Nochyn of Battenberg for one hundred million gold sovereigns, and he has already spent the ten per cent deposit.’
    â€˜I know,’ said Mordonna. ‘He’d sell my mother and my sister and me for nineteen pieces of silver. I’ve heard he even sold his aunt for a second-hand lawnmower. We will have to leave Transylvania Waters.’
    â€˜But there is no way out of the tunnels,’ said Nerlin despondently. ‘We are doomed to a life of darkness and slime.’
    â€˜Actually, there is a way out,’ said Vessel. ‘How do you think I got down here?’
    â€˜I imagined that as you are such a devoted servant to my mother you had allowed her to flush you down a lavatory,’ said Mordonna.
    â€˜No, no, young mistress,’ said Vessel, and told them about the secret door. ‘My grandfather showed it to me and that was how I left the drains in the first place.’
    â€˜Can you take us to my mother?’ said Mordonna. ‘If anyone will know what to do, it will be her.’
    â€˜Yes, my lady. As soon as the world is asleep, we will go to the Queen.’

    Queen Scratchrot may have been short-sighted, but she knew a hunk when she saw one, and as soon as she laid eye 12 on Nerlin she was captivated.
    â€˜I can see why you fell for him,’ she said to her daughter. ‘He’s absolutely gorgeous.’
    â€˜Oh, mother,’ Mordonna cried, ‘what can we do? What is to become of us?’
    â€˜You must leave Transylvania Waters,’ said the Queen. ‘And I shall leave with you.’
    â€˜You would give up everything you have here, your majesty?’ said Nerlin.
    â€˜I think you can call me Mummy now,’ the Queen giggled. She tried to flutter her eyelids at Nerlin, but one of them fluttered out of the window and got attacked by a butterfly. ‘Anyway, what’s to give up? I’ve spent most of my life married to a red-faced, brainless, chinless tyrant. I know, I know, that’s the role of every queen … but it’s time for a change.’
    â€˜You would leave Transylvania Waters andthose who love you?’ Vessel sobbed, unable to hide his true feelings.
    The Queen patted her equery on the arm and whispered in his ear, ‘Only if you will go with me, my dear.’
    You would think that being married to a King would have its good points, such as wealth and status, but being the wife of King Quatorze had so many bad points – too many to list here – that Queen Scratchrot was very lonely. For years and years she had tried not to fall in love with her faithful equery, but his elegant dead-body-like good looks and sweet rotting-flesh smell made him irresistible. Now that her own daughter had found true love, the Queen decided she would deny her heart no more.
    Vessel fainted and dropped his tree again, which made Parsnip really cross as he had only just settled back into his nest.
    â€˜Snip-Snip got head saw,’ he squawked. ‘Need go wet.’
    â€˜What’s that bird talking about?’ saidthe Queen. ‘Need go wet? Does he want to go to the toilet?’
    â€˜No. Need go wet,’ Parsnip repeated. ‘Snip-Snip got head saw, need go wetinary