looked at the castle. It was the same shiny platinum as the gate, but the castle was sleek and smooth as glass. There was the same lacy design around the windows and doors. It looked so elegant. It was the most beautifully wonderful thing Bliss had ever seen. Bliss was surprised that it wasn’t bigger. It was really big, but Bliss always thought that such a castle would be really gigantic. Bliss roughly guessed it was around 20,000 square feet, and she was about right. The castle was sleek, glossy, smooth, elegant, exquisite, marvelous and substantial. Bliss said to the wand, "Tell us how to get to the illusive treasure." When Jest heard this he was so happy that he started to dance. Well, he danced the best any cat can dance. It just looked like he was hoping around and wiggling his tail. The wand said, "Follow me." The bright pink wand flew out of Bliss’s hand. It headed toward the front door of the shiny platinum castle. Bliss and Jest followed it. Bliss thought, I’ve done a lot of following things that I don’t understand today. They came to the huge front doors. Bliss opened one of them and stepped inside. The inside was made up of shiny platinum just like the outside. The walls, floors, and high ceilings were made of the enchanting platinum. The furnishings and the decorations were made up of glistering platinum and gold. It was breath takenly beautiful. Bliss and Jest followed the wand up three flights of platinum stairs. They went into a hallway that was entirely gold. Bliss, Jest and the wand went to the end of it. The were in front of a plain, solid, gold wall. The wand told Bliss where to knock on it. When Bliss knocked on it, a flight of platinum stairs that were going down appeared in the wall. They went down the stairs and came to a solid pink ruby door with a platinum doorknob. Bliss opened it. Inside was a room completely filled with diamonds. Each diamond was the size ...