T he new territory into which Princess Nell had crossed was by far the 
largest and most complex of all the Faery Kingdoms in the Primer. Paging back 
to the first panoramic illustration, she counted seven major castles perched on 
the mountaintops, and she knew perfectly well that she would have to visit all 
of them, and do something difficult in each one, in order to retrieve the 
eleven keys that had been stolen from her and the one key that remained.