"You may come and go as you please, Damos." He had offered me a refuge without so many words.
The chateau is as dark on the outside as it is on the inside. Even in the daylight there is a certain recondite eeriness about it which unsettles me. Had it not been for the fact that Papillion and Domitian currently reside there behind Chateau du Cachot's slightly decaying patina, I would have never possessed the courage to trespass beyond her gates.
Yet that night, far past the witching ahn.. I went there unexpectedly. And I let myself right into the house, for the door was unlocked.. much like it is at my own Master's house. Inside it was somber. The silence near deafening. Yet I crouched to the floor there in the immediate great room and removed by Beloved from her velvet-lined case. And then I played her like a lover, until the fading gloom released its chilly grip of fear upon me.
My serenade.. to any with a desire hear it: Come and make love to me.
