Cleaning Day for Mr Heronbrig

Leovold Banshankler was going to have a terrible day. He was assigned to clean for Mr. Heronbrig. Mr. Heronbrig was not a noteworthy Distinguished Individual. In fact, Leovold had never even heard of Mr. Heronbrig until yesterday when he had been told to be at 123 Lane, house number 4, at 5 o'clock sharp. So here he was passing by the 6 gargoyles that lined the walkway. He knocked on the door 7 times as per the instructions given him. 8 seconds passed by and then he heard the unlatching of 9 separate locks! apparently Mr Heronbrig was a stickler for security. Leovold laughed at a normal person trying to steal anything from a Distinguished Individual like Mr Heronbrig even if he was not noteworthy enough for Leovold to know of. The door stayed closed for another long while, it was 10-se for poor Leovold. But he stood up tall and waited there in his cleaners uniform with his tools in a hand pulled wagon.

At just fourteen he had already apprenticed under Devineen Forchester, a notable cleaner in the city of Bigimportantcity, About thirty miles north of Smallunimportantton where Leovold had grown up. He had always wanted to be a cleaner, he admired how meticulous they were and the care they took for their craft. He also so admired the important Distinguished Individuals they got to serve. He had thought, especially being apprenticed to one such as Mrs. Forchester, that he would immediately be assigned to one of the greats! Like Lady Grullinmach of the Grullinmach apothecary's or maybe Lord Halbertstienwinkle who was the greatest poet in all of Bigcountry, maybe even the whole world! Unfortunately they apparently were only seen to by Mrs. Forchester personally. So instead Leovold had been assigned to Mr. Heronbrig. Such an unremarkable distinguished individual that Leovold had never heard of him.

When the servant door finally opened a man in a fine suit was standing on the other side. Which was good cause if he had somehow been standing on the same side of the door as Leovold that would've made getting the door open a lot harder.

"Mr. Banshankler?" The man in the fine suit inquired

"Yes sir, here with Mrs. Forchester's distinguished cleaner service for the Distinguished Individuals of Bigimportantcity" Leovold said sharply, he had been practicing this all the way over.

"Ah yes, Pleasure to have you. Have you worked with Distinguished Individuals before?" The man in the fine suit asked

"Of course I have!" Leovold said just as clearly. He had been practicing this lie all the way over too.

"Wonderful. I am glad that Mrs. Forchester finally has decided to send over someone who knows what they are doing. I feel sometimes like she doesn't fully appreciate the importance of Mr. Heronbrig, Yet he keeps requesting her services anyway." He ushered Leovold through the halls that were clearly built for normal individuals like them. They passed their way through immaculately kept hallways and down dust-free stairs. Whoever the picker uppers were for Mr. Heronbrig, they were very good at their jobs.

They passed through a door that looked exactly like all the other doors they had passed through, but this time they found themselves in a giant library. And not only was the room big, every piece of the room was big! The books were nearly the size of three Leovolds stacked on top of each other (Why you would be stacking Leovolds, even if you did have three of them, is beyond me, and I suppose, beside the point.) In the center of the enormous room there was a large cobble stone pit dug into the floor.

Sitting there with his big red head laid on a stand made for that purpose was a fully grown red dragon. His spines were black and long though they seemed to be going grey on the tips indicating not only was he fully grown but also that he was very old. His wings were spread out and being massaged by a small army of masseuses. His wing span was much too big to even start to measure (too many Leovolds to stack on top of each other, thank you for asking). Sitting on another stand in front of him was a book with six human attendants to flip it's massive pages.