If Zoe suspects that Iollan's propensity for always having chocolate cake - or brownies, or sugar-dusted chocolate crinkles - when she needs chocolate isn't due to deep and abiding respect for the cocoa bean, she's never let on.

"Of course," she says. And because it's Chives and only because it's Chives, she smiles crookedly at him. "You can come in when you return." He's likely the only member of the Castle staff who has ever been allowed.