Dozens of such thoughts kept swirling and tumbling around inside my head, relentless and unstoppable like a tidal wave— I almost didn’t notice the moment we entered Keep Affect.

It became more and more difficult to keep putting one foot in front of the other. The larger-than-life space of the hall, the grand and luxuriousness of the furniture, drapes by the floor-to-ceiling windows open to the night air, and the Palatian emblems hanging everywhere—it was all suddenly pressing down on me. ...