"Will you keep your word?"
"I'm not the bad guy here. Take her!!
Now keep yours!!!!"
"Don't worry, girls. I'll take care of your kid as if he were my own brother."
"Please don't care for him like that."
"Hey!! You watch your…"
"Girls! Girls!! Do you want to trade or not?"
"I'll keep your boy safe."
"You better, cause I don't care if you're a Dragon or not."
"Come on Star, we don't want to be late."
"Thank you. Thank you. You don't know what this means to me."
"Let's go; before I change my mind and regret my decision."
"Adelheid, has Shadow treated you well?"
"It was more of me treating him."
"What do you mean?"
"He was scared and loyal to NightMaster that I kid you not, he knew nothing of the underside of Nowhere. I had to watch over him."
"Well, at least we know he keeps his promises so much so that even if you told him to sneak around, he wouldn't do it."
"I hate to ask, but are you sure this is the same nemesis of your future that turns evil?"
"Wait, maybe we have been looking at this all wrong. Once you die, Nowhere takes the nicest of us and then forces us dark so that it is the only way to escape."
"Are you saying that I've been training up for nothing?"
"No. It's good we kill Dragons. They are the true enemy. Shadow is just a misguided boy who is uncertain which side of the line he belongs on."
"What do you propose we do, Adalyn, queen of love and everything good?"
"The plan doesn't change. Shadow is taking your child. We tried to show love, but nothing beats the love of a child. This will help him show the love of a father to your son. A love that he himself never received."
"But his dad is right there."
"Does he know that? As far as he knows, his parents kicked them out and even if they were still here; none have walked beside him and helped him out. I mean, look. NightMaster is just taking a backseat in the shadows as he watches his son take over his kingdom and do whatever the hell he wants with it. Letting your kids do whatever they want because you want them to feel independent….is not love!!"
"Who in the entirety of all the galaxies has Shadow ever loved besides his father?"
"I can only think of one girl."
"Let me guess. Shadow has her walking to the future king?"
"She is the only one he would've given up everything to be with her and couldn't kill her no matter how hard he tried."
"Would he call her Princess!!!"
"No! He would call her Queen."
"I've heard that you have roamed these parts! Is that true?"
"Many memories were made here. Night may rule the surface, but Hopegivers rule the darkness."
"Must be lonely down here being the only one."
"I am not alone. There are three other 'Givers' that help me."
"Wrong!! Right now, there is only one. You are the second."
"Star, wassup, wassup!! How has life been treating you, my friend."
"Willow, it's been a while, but don't you mean, 'how has death been kind to you?"
"What are…do you two know each other?"
"It's an inside joke. The only way you would get it is if you were dead."
"You're dead, milady? How'd you die?"
"Twas love that killed the Hope."
"Someone loved you so much that they thought you dead better than alive would suffice? Who could've killed a beauty such as yourself?"
"I'm looking right at him."
"I killed you? Why?"
"You loved me so much that you couldn't bear to see me face Dragon. That is why you killed me fast instead of slow."
"I…I…I'm sorry to have done that to you."
"It's all good. Through death, you have helped me light my true passion. Now instead of being a hope for a few, I am a hope for all the world. So, thank you."
"How can you be happy in death? You receive no rest?"
"The day to me is all I need. Sacrificing sleep for another's wake is only little compared to the joy I give."
"Do you consider it a joy what we are about to do?"
"Kidnap a dragon and raise it as our own? Nah. It's just another day, another lifesaving."
"Summer doesn't like you or me."
"I've felt that vibe."
"So, what say you and I become king and queen with having a Dragon as our kin? We could live on Dreamworld for all eternity."
"I've already seen Dreamworld. Willow, can you guide us to the kid?"
"Have...uhh. Did you like it?"
"Let's just say that if I were queen then we would be changing a few things for the future of our world?"
"Is it that bad?"
"You have good values and philosophy, it's just that the very people that provide those philosophies….you kill."
"Somebody has to make a sacrifice and since you were there, you should know that the only sacrifices Night's beasts accept are pure bloods and hearts. Nobodies purer than them. You understand."
"We could kill his beasts?"
"How? They are not mortal. You would need someone that wasn't born with clay and dirt but paper and tongues."
"Lucky for us, we have one."
"Dragons will yes kill them, but since Night birthed Dragon out of the text using love, then love binds them. Night would never kill a Dragon and Dragons would never kill Night nor any of his offspring."
"NightMaster doesn't own the beasts though. He only found them and trapped them from hurting others. To kill them we need to force their master, the one who created them, to uncreate them. Can the beasts not be killed alone?"
"They can, and we have."
"Then it's settled."
"We let Eelon get away."
"What? How? Why? Did you invoke this? He can create more beasts at his disposal that way. Who sanctioned it?"
"It was Adalyn. I tried stopping her, but you can't stop love."
"No, my darling. You cannot stop love. Love makes us do weird things and then regret them later."
"But what if love binded things?"
"Star, what are you doing? Do you know what you're saying? You can't love the enemy."
"The thing is, is he the enemy?"
"Adelheid, what's wrong? Do you have a headache?"
"I cant…..I can't…"
"What is it? Where does it hurt?"
"...We have made a grave mistake."
"I knew it. I shouldn't have given my son up. There is another way."
"No! That is not the mistake. What you did was wise. What wasn't wise however is who we sent to retrieve him."
"Star?"
"Adelheid, couldn't you see this coming? Can you not see what is, what was, and what will be?"
"Star cannot be seen. Since she is of the dead, her conciseness and soul are gone. The reason I can see what is unseen is because the living have memories, thoughts, and brains that show me what is to be. The dead block that all out."
"That still doesn't answer the question why she would turn. I mean love is a powerful tool, but it can't be that powerful, can it?"
"It wasn't out of love that she turned. It was hope."
"What's there to hope for? It's as you said, the future is already dark."
"Hope always shines bright and mixed with love, it is unstoppable. If there is hope, love, and darkness all in one place; what more is there? She was born to be a giver. She was first to her community, then to the heartless, and now she wants to go to the world. Who is to stop her?"
"WE ARE!!!