"It is difficult to explain." She frowns and purses her lips; this is going to sound more cryptic than usual, even coming from her, simply because there is so much that no one knows.

"We are bound to the castle from the moment we arrive, whether we will it or no. One may only travel so far before one becomes keenly aware of that fact- it calls to us, for lack of a better term, and it seems more than capable of simply returning us here at a whim. There are some, of course, who live outside the walls- in the nearby town or the forest. Yet even they are not always spared these tricks, as you put it."