[The being eternally lost doesn't help with finding people you know. His expression is grim despite the cheer in the air.]

...I can only think this is the case, for if the castle is sentient, it is playing with our lives. It saved me, and yet took the lives of two others, one in a manner not dissimilar to how I would have perished. ...And since it saw fit to steal everyone's powers, I wasn't able to even attempt to save them. [The pain in his eyes is the same as an old soldier who had seen far too much death in his time.]