Commentary: The “Our Strange and Wonderful House” challenge has so far been answered by a lot of descriptions of what it found within the House, but less so with what goes on there. My intention with this story is to introduce a character, the boy Rondel, who will eventually visit most parts of the House. I see the House as an expansive place, that probably exists in every place and in every time. The closest thing that I can compare it to is Gormenghast Castle in Mervyn Peake’s books. I recommend the first two books in the series, Titus Groan and Gormenghast very highly.

As a character entering the house, would he consider it an honor, or a burden? Or perhaps I should say, what’s his motivation?! :P heh.