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...s from Peyna’s farm in the Inner Baronies back to the fearful castle with nothing except for the risks of getting killed. Five days later, with not a soul knowing the whereabouts of Dennis, Naomi and Ben Staad (Peter’s best friend) come upon the deserted farm. Naomi’s dogs have been pulling the sleds for thirty miles all the way from a snowy hollow in which they were camping. The two now feel helpless. With no clue on where there friend had traveled to, they search diligently for any signs of what they are to do next and find nothing at all. “If only there were a way to track him,” Ben says and, thereafter, a light bulb lights in Naomi’s head like the sun on a due-soaked morning (King 296). This is the epitome of where Frisky fits into the picture. After brief discussion and argument, Ben and Naomi discover that there are traces of Dennis in this abandoned shed but it cannot be detected by humans and Frisky’s sense of smell is like the “eyesight of a man with the gaze of a hawk” (King 299). Stephen King substantially points out that Dennis’s scent is a bright electric blue and that Frisky has the scent stored away in her “library of scents” (King 299). Frisky leads her companions far and high, through many miles of snow to the deserted farmhouse and eventually to a place in which they are forced to pause. astle moat. One may appear dumbfounded considering why Frisky is referred to above as being ‘over-confident.’ At the moat, after some minor conflict, the Anduan Husky personally expedites the situation and takes a leap of faith into the great sewer pipe which takes the travelers under the castle and directly to Dennis’s location. Besides the fact that Frisky’s “noble nose” is a main theme and could be considered by some a moral, there is more educational and entertainment values here than in any other part of the story. Flagg’s animals aide him in all of his attempts to doom the kingdom of Delain. For example, the deathwatch spider that Flagg kept encaged for twenty years is his way to attempt to kill Sasha, the King’s beloved wife. The spider has been feeding on newborn baby mice that are dying from poison. The spider is blood red and as big as a rat (King 31). Flagg squeezes the spider to death and mixes the deadly insides with a glass of brandy, something that Sasha drinks a glass of each night to help her sleep. Flagg rings for a servant to come and take the glass to her. Sasha never finds out how close to death she came that night (King 33). Another example is the mouse Flagg uses to set up Peter. Flagg is a very powerful magician. With this knowledge, no one would question Flagg’s abilities to place Dragon Sand, the most deadly substance of the time, into a box that he stole from Peter long ago and hide the box, along with a cursed mouse, into a secret place that, allegedly, only Peter knows about. Because the evidence of the crime is found in a place that only Peter knows about, people begin to see a murderer’s face behind a mask of affection and respect (King 116). Peter is then tried before a jury and taken to the top of the needle where he is to spend the rest of his life. The reader is introduced to the dragon at the beginning of the novel when King Roland and others are hunting and ire-breathing creature. The young dragon is killed when the brave King nocks his arrow, draws, and fires. Roland makes a direct hit in the ...