He gets cursed and becomes a shut in. Ostensibly traders and diplomats have attempted to visit, but were they turned away? No way the talking furniture acted as a proxy for the head of the house. There’s no evidence anyone has come to or departed from the castle premises in quite some time.
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Well, there’s fresh food. They prepare Belle a stellar banquet. There’s a full stock of firewood. Unless there were talking floating axes who swung themselves at timber, all of these things would have arrived at the castle by trade. There was no evidence of farming on the premises.