After that letter arrived - and we were promptly told of our fate for the foreseeable future - the mood inside of the Palace was shifted towards something far more... subdued, all of us lost in thought and coming to terms that we were - yet again - being sent out to a hostile area for who knows how long.
And this wasn't just any hostile area either; it was the Labyrinthian, which was supposed to be the most hostile area of them all on this continent, and a place that very few people came back from.
Not only that, but it was a complete unknown in terms of what was inside of it, where we could end up after entering, if there was anyone actually living inside of the Labyrinthian... besides Lilith, apparently...