[ She nods in agreement. The castle doesn't house the knights, since the knights seem to simply reform as they wished, becoming snow when convenient. Are all these rooms and whatnot for the ruler, then? All for one ruler? Who knows. ]

Of course, of course. A ruler is nothing without their subjects, a castle even moreso. I would even hesitate to call the current soldiers knights, for they are more like hollow dolls of cold, tenacious as they are in hunting down those who have done little wrong to them. We did not trespass on purpose!

[ It's not like they can really reason with them either, though. ]