You enter a room with dark walls and no lights. Wondering where the light switch is, you turn and are startled by a man behind you.
This was Ara's room. Program Ara One.
A beach appears around you, waves crashing gently on the shore. It looks to be the exact time of day in here that it is outside.
Ara had it programmed to match the time of day or night with the time of the area she was living in. In this case, the Castle. She's a Changeling, same as me, though she preferred the term Shapeshifter. She spent years in the water before humans found her. She always felt more comfortable there.
You stare, amazed as the man continues.
The room can be programmed to produce any landscape or situation. We use this room for recreation now that it has been fairly established that Ara will not be returning any time soon. She left for an unspecified amount of time when our people were discovered. We keep this room hers in hope that she will come back.
She has no music, no possessions. She never wanted or needed any. This was all she needed, but not all she was.
Lecture over, the man leads you out and then disapears down the hall.