"I've seen that before, at least." The House, under the King's control, was strange indeed. Odile's not sure how much of that was due to him, and how much may have been Siffrin's doing. She's never asked.

Jotting down a note, she flips to a new section of her book, especially for this. "Have you heard any interesting stories so far? I imagine not many of them are new, considering how long you've been here." He was one of the first, wasn't he?