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You wonder what has become of the King, the halberdiers, his retinue. Is the castle deserted? Where are all the attendants and servants, perhaps they fled the keep before the siege?
Instead, as you enter the Great Hall - Telesterion, The Temple-Fortress, Hall Of Initiation - you seem them all assembled.
Thousands of them, though you suspect, if you counted, there would be precisely one thousand nine hundred and twenty-two. Nobles, courtiers, servants, knights; masters of the kennels, hunt and horse; cooks and scullions, blacksmiths, bowyers, candlemakers; priests, counsellors, scholars, scribes... Surely Hieronymous Erde is here?
All of the castle gathered in the Great Hall are frozen in oblivion. They stare upon the candles in utter silence.
