I hope that coat you're wearing is warm. It gets quite cold here at times, even with a fire on the grate. The villagers say it's the spirits that still haunt these halls. I wouldn't know. I've never felt the cold spots myself. My clan found this castle deserted as you do. They stayed here for a while, but the Roma are not castle people. Or perhaps we were not this castle's people. For whatever reason, they were gone when I got back.

Oh, yes, I left. Long ago. Not because I did not love my clan. But to find my cousin Zora. Her family took me in when my parents died. I was seven; Zora was two. She's like a sister to me and when he spirited her away, I accepted the challenge of finding her again. That was ... many years ago. What is time, anyway, to one such as I?

Over the next few hours, weeks, centuries, I'll be working to make this castle habitable again. At least so those who visit this place will be comfortable ... if a bit chilled.