"You could think of an elevator as a kind of multiply opening door," Pepper muses. "But with more waiting. Not much more waiting, though, if it's a good elevator."
"It's a... box big enough to stand in that moves up and down between floors of a tall building much more quickly than you could climb the same distance using stairs."
"I... guess that's better than just having a lot of stairs? I mean, we have stairs too, the castle is pretty big. Also you have to go all the way up one of the towers to get to the dungeons."
"I'd hope not! Frequently used dungeons are so rarely a good sign," says Pepper.
"...None of my moms will actually tell me what we would use them for, if we used them. The tablecloth drying rack used to be down there, though," she adds.
"But they're inconvenient to get to anyway and there's not too little room in other parts of the castle, so that's okay." Carinna puts Mossy on her shoulder. Mossy snuggles up to her neck and whmmmmmms.
Carinna hands over Mossy. "The glowing and the whmmming are happy," she says, sounding like she fancies herself a multiverse-class expert on poofs.
It whmmmmmmms.
"What a little darling," she says, petting it tentatively.
"They're so nice! You don't have to be careful, either, it just looks like it - you can't hurt them, when they glow it makes an anti-injury field and it works for people near them too."
"That's convenient," says Pepper, petting Mossy's fluff. "Do they, um... make more poofs somehow or other?"
"I guess they must. I've never seen them doing it. There's always plenty in the cave."
"Kanim might know. He studies caves and stuff and he's been studying the Gentle Cave."
"I guess that makes sense, if he is a boy Tony. It's weird that most of them are boys."