I turned my head just enough, just enough to look back over my shoulder. The hallway that I was in had candle holders on either side of the walls, illuminating the path that I was walking down now, serving as the only source of light—it was something that made me wonder who’s idea it had been to use candles as the light source, in a place as large as this one. We were in the twenty third century, for goodness sake. Everything was powered by electricity—our homes, our vehicles, literally everything. And yet, they chose to power a castle with candles.
What I did find rather difficult to understand, was that this was the first section of the castle that I had been in that wasn’t running on electricity. What made this part of the palace so different? The dining room, and the chambers, as wel
