The door slams just as Ichigo and Sanro make their appearance, "It appears someone beat us here."<br/><br/>Inside the 'Castle' is worse than outside.  The school is gone, replaced with an impossibly long set of stairs leading up into apparent infinity.  Over top is a huge hourglass swinging like a pendulum, ticking off what seems to be seconds, each drop of sand falling in time with each sway and falling straight 'down'.<br/><br/>"cOmE iN, cOmE iN, oNe AnD aLl," The voice both male and female, high and low reverberates through the chamber and out the door.  Climbing down the stairs and stepping onto the black and white tiled flooring is an improbably tall and thin figure clad in a vaguely harlequin jesters outfit.  A white face mask with a long nose shifts, smiling one second, sad the next...  And floating above an empty collar!<br/><br/>"WeLcOmE tO tHe Palace Of Desire!"<br/><br/><div align="center">*****</div><br/>"Is that what these things are?  Odd."<br/><br/>But at Jessi's request, they end up on her own head, despite him not moving.  And pulling out an hourglass with the infinity symbol pressed into the glass, he gapes in shock!  "Already?  Oh no!  No time, not time!"<br/><br/>He dashes towards the school, and then stop looking annoyed at the tall girl, "Well?  Coming or not?"