[That's even weirder, this whole business around the castle was beginning to wear on her last frayed nerve. She'd hoped and thought that it wouldn't have anything to do with her or anyone she really knew, but then this happens...]

Believe me, I am.

Wait. Waitwaitwait. Your mother said that? Something seems completely off about that, considering how she is and considering how she and my mother seem to share a brain a lot of the time. There's no way in hell she'd ever say something like that, or at least not that I could ever understand. You're absolutely sure it was sent to the right person and not a message that got mixed up between owls?