"On the hunt for traps perhaps led you directly into one? That would be very unfortunate - but, I suppose, you may have saved your companions the same fate." How heroic!

She took another sip of her wine, set it down on the table and stared at the contents for a few seconds. "Alone in the sense that I was not traveling with any of my former companions, I suppose. But not technically alone. I was in a large castle, doing my duties for the new king, and when I wandered into the library I had set foot in a thousand times before...I did so eight more times. Until I arrived here through the door."