"Alive, you say?" Now that is a surprise. "How might stone be alive? Has a sorcerer enchanted it?"

Castles are also ancient in Firethroat's current day, though that is not why she has not seen any. Luster never really picked up the whole "building" stage. Too few humans and those who fell into the world tended to wander. On Earth they might have skyscrapers and other architecture, but in Luster the world was still wild and free.

"Tell me of this room and journal."