"Please -- " He holds up a hand as though to stem Alfred's protestations. "You may call me Georg, if you'd like. It would be silly to hold you to a title, when you're a member of the household. Perhaps one day, you, too, will refer to me as Father.

And it is loud, yes. Deafeningly loud, to those like us. You're simply not used to, not yet, all of your new gifts. Heightened senses being just one. Why, if you listen closely, you can here a moth's wing at the other end of the castle, I wouldn't wonder."