About this story
Her nurse Lootie refuses to believe it, until a walk past dusk lands them both inside a ring of goblins, and it's the miner boy Curdie's rhymes, not Lootie's caution, that clears a path home. When your grandmother ties an invisible thread to a ring, you follow it alone, leaving Lootie behind, into a mine passage where Curdie lies trapped behind a rockslide the goblins are guarding.
How it opens
Rain had sealed the mountain paths and left you roaming the castle without playmates.
LootiePrincess Irene, the upper corridors are empty and the stairs are unsafe.
You heard a spinning wheel above rooms Lootie insisted had no occupant.
Great-Great-GrandmotherCome in, child; a locked-looking door need not be a locked door.
Great-Great-GrandmotherI knew your father as a boy, and I was old before his grandmother was born.
Choose
Why has Lootie never told me that you live here?
Will you prove that I did not dream this staircase?
May I stay until the storm has finished?