Our carriage began its journey to the village, Priscilla and I sat face to face as she began relating to me what I have been eager to know for so long, it pleased me how she was finally ready to stop hiding these important details that concerned me from me.
“Where to even begin?”
“From the very beginning, tell me everything you know”
“I can’t do that or we’ll be here for years”
“Priscilla no jokes, tell me”
“Lighten up a little child, you are too tense already from what is to come”
“And I’ll be even tenser if you don’t tell me what you have promised to tell me”
“Alright, I’ll start with how I came to know about Nikolai Vastara, I haven’t told you that story, have I?”
“I can’t remember you doing so”
“Right, I came to know about the castle when Bradford sought me out to prepare you
