Horst looks over his shoulder, toward the castle he so recently visited when fetching his (not-quite-)dragon-slaying sword, and then points that way. "The castle just that way -- I'm having a bit of a look around in search of a book one of the other captives mentioned. He says he left it in one of the towers. I was hoping you might be able to give my purloined sword and I a tiny boost up through one of the windows near the top."

And I heard a woman crying, he doesn't add, not wanting to sound easily gulled if it turns out to have been a trap. But he swears, he swears he heard a woman sobbing, and he remembers the posters for the LOST PRINCESS, and he's more than a bit concerned about what's at the top of that tower. So Horst is just going to have a bit of a peek. Just in case someone's in trouble.