Moving through the castle corridors, Ren gradually realized the structure was truly enormous, much more than he had anticipated from the already imposing exterior.
A bunch of people with different tasks seemed to live here permanently. There were cooks running with trays, cleaners maintaining tapestries, scribes carrying documents, guards patrolling in rotations, and dozens of other workers whose specific functions Ren couldn't identify.
Most looked busy and hurried, though he didn't know if this was normal or if the current frenzy was because of the war.
The scale was impressive, a self-contained 'city' within the castle walls, hundreds of people whose lives revolved around maintaining and supporting the royal family and their operations.
After considerable time moving through different corridors and stairs, many more than Ren first expected, they finally arrived where Julius wanted to take them.
