Castle

Rubbing your arms to keep warm, you slowly trudge the last few hundred yards to the castle. Even with your eyelids threatening to freeze shut, you can tell it is grand and beautiful. Ancient symbols and crests adorn it's walls, and the giant wooden doors alone probably cost a small fortune. Speaking of the doors..

Your shivering hands grab the cold door knockers and and them as loud as you can.

No response.

You bang again, but still no one answers. You collapse on the doorstep, shivering, as the cold overtakes you. Your last sight before your eyes shut is a great light, and an angelic figure lifting you out of the snow...

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You snap awake, sitting straight up in your bed. Wait, not your bed--not even a bed at all. It's a tall armchair by a fireplace. You look around, and realize the figure certainly wasn't an angel, as this doesn't look like any heaven you've ever heard of. No, it looks more like a personal library, the kind you'd find in a mansion.

Throwing the many layers of blankets you're under off, you get up. You don't see anyone around...maybe you could explore!