" That is understandable." Zephyr nods. " I assume Mother will be just as anxious to have any of *us* back should we be held at a place Like this Amber. Was this Corwin on an official mission, or a private one, do we know?" He pauses a moment to think, then continues.<br/><br/>" You say he *expected* the Lion's Foot to be there, but not the surroundings? Perhaps he was just following a sense of power to it's core somehow? Or perhaps... Do these Amberites have similar powers to our own? Traveling through shadows, specifically? If so, perhaps he had once found a shadow of the Foot sans Castle, but stumbled onto the real thing this time?"