"More than the teeming green..."
Reminds me of the Dean Martin song: "Party dolls and wine, honey let the good times roll."
Except the Princess doesn't seem to be having such a good time. She's afraid of germs, and going outside, of talking to people without having a drink first, worried about her clothes and her hair, and she wears gloves and a gas mask because you never know where those teeming germies are gonna come from, Howard Hughes knew the score on that.
She's wearing one of those spiked dog collars. She's in bondage to the hidden, secret world of microscopic, teeming germs, besides someone with germs might want to hug her and this will deflect their lips, teeming with bacteria. She sprained her arm flipping that die deciding what to do, and the alien, teeming green bacterium on the sword handles is causing her to clench her fist. She tried painting iodine on the handles to counteract growth, but still the teeming gunk replicates before her eyes. Some knife throwing man, teeming with disgusting, pungent germs thought he'd give her a juggling show with knives and music and take her for some money. She paid him to leave and he was so pleased with himself that he forgot his knives and went to tell all his friends what a successful, talented, smart guy he was. Thank goodness she had her gas mask on, and she'll never have to listen to the song Starboat Blooper again.
Sometimes she looks up at the other tower window and thinks she might visit the Sword Worshipper there, but those corridors haven't been cleaned in a while and you never know if they might be teeming with spiders and mouse droppings, sure carriers of germs and bad smells. She'd like some more vino but her glass is empty and she can't drink with the gas mask on anyway, and there's no one there to clean the glass properly, ensuring various greasy bacteria aren't allowed to infiltrate the liquid. Besides, big smears of Crazy Crimson Claret lipstick, teeming with bacteria, are often left on glasses by lazy bartenders.
Is that green stuff growing feet and walking toward her?
You have to be careful, there's a lot of hidden, invisible scum in the Labyrinth.
The doctor is smiling, he's making a pile of money from these home visits.