A fruit thrown overboard houses this word, A pirates words may have you lured To its domain in places of water, Yellow, Blue, or Pink may be its color Full of holes yet soft and full A character made from this word is rarely dull What am I?

Height lended extender. Rung up, low reach rendered: contender. Used by defenders from embers’, red and white liquid senders. Don't lean unless tender, a fall may be an ender. A-framed H ascender. The walk-under luck-bender.

Fortresses of fantasy, where kings and queens rule. Built on dreams and sand sometimes, they tower over moats and history, guarding secrets of yore.

I can be up but not down. In gaming, I'm a combination without a lock, a glass cannon. In the mirror, the defined result of exercise. In software, the next step of progress. As an active verb, I can refer to something completed in the past.

We like to dance - clickety click, under your hands really quick. We conjure words as you demand, what is our home, our motherland?