To those who, in spite of everything, still choose goodness

I never saw her again. But even now, as an old man, I remember her as clearly as if she were standing before me. She was ice personified. There was once a time when darkness shrouded the world, and the darkness had a queen.”—A witness’s account of Queen Adelina’s siege on the nation of DumorThe Village of Pon-de-Terre28 Marzien, 1402

I never saw her again. But even now, as an old man, I remember her as clearly as if she were standing before me. She was ice personified. There was once a time when darkness shrouded the world, and the darkness had a queen.

After a lifetime of darkness, I want to leave something behind that is made of light.

They were the flash of light in a stormy sky, the fleeting darkness before dawn. Never have they existed before, nor shall they ever exist again.

He was the last thread suspending me in the light. Without him, I can feel myself spiraling downward, falling to a place where I can no longer pull myself back up.

I looked into those eyes and I saw nothing. It was like staring straight into the Underworld. Like he aches to return to where he came from.

There was once a time when darkness shrouded the world, and the darkness had a queen.

Desperation brings out the darkness in everyone," the man said with a shrug.