You'd also chosen this route in order to take some time to pay reverence at the ruins of the Castle of the Two Sisters; you spent plenty of time traveling its long-wasted away halls, revisiting old paths you'd traveled: the royal archives, where your nights of research took place leading up to you leaving; the winding staircase towards Luna's personal bedchambers you'd always fantasized about being able to walk along unmolested, up to your awaiting paramour... all fallen to ruin after that fateful night.