On and after the long journey, Victoria never talked to Lukas. She distanced herself from him, while Lukas is sure that it is about their love making that made her like that. And with her ignoring him, the time passed faster than he thought.
And now he's here...
The old corridors enfolded him and one thing is for sure, he's back.
Everything in this castle became a nightmare.
These familiar turns, the same vases, the same suits of armor, the same paintings, even the same guards. His years of existence and everything was the same, except him. In the niches small silver lamps burned oil squeezed from whales in distant seas. Lukas walked from one pool of light to the next, behind a guard whose armor beggared his own. Victoria and the others had been led to separate destinations, and Luka
