When I got home, the castle was completely deserted, even Ab and Hel were out. I felt guilty, because they had had no dinner, and called and called them but they didn’t come. My voice sounded despairing and I suddenly felt lonelier than I ever remember feeling, and more deeply sad. Everything I looked at was grey — grey water in the moat, great grey towering walls, remote grey sky; even the wheat, which was between green and gold, seemed colourless.
