(The Sight Of Reize, Lying There Motionless...) (So Much Was Running Through My Mind.) (I Do Not Know If Any Mortal Can Truly Understand It, But That Was The Moment That Everything... Came Together For Me.) (The Feeling Of Sadness And Grief Vanished.) (I No Longer Felt Any Ill Will Toward The Enchantress. Or Despair For Myself.) (Filling The Void Of My Mind Was Naught But A Single Belief.)

~Oh?~ ~Even now, you cling to hope?~ "I Have No Hope To Grasp." "This Is Truth." "He Shall Not Perish." "That Is The Decision." ~You believe you can save his life?~ "It Is No Mere Belief." ~I will not allow this.~ "You Will." ~Foolish minion! Do you not see the futility of your determination?~ ~Everything you can possibly do is a mere extension of MY power!~ ~Persist, and I shall reclaim it!~

"Then Do So." (She Did So.) (I Felt The Power Drain Directly From My Body And Into Her Form... Or Perhaps The Amulet She Bore.) (I Did Not Flinch. I Merely Departed, Never Loosening My Grasp On My Friend's Son.) (I Could Not Change The Facts.) (Everything That I Was Had Been A Result Of Her Power.) (Yet My Power Had Been Increased Beyond That Point.) (I Had To Accept Becoming The Remainder.)

(It Did Not Leave Me With Much.) (Reize Was Safe, But I Could Do Little More For Him Than Entrust Him To Another, To Ensure That The Enchantress Could Not Find Him.) (I Could Not Expect To Defeat Her.) (I No Longer Possessed A Master. Or An Ally. Or A Mission. Or A Goal. Or Any Hope That I Could Escape My Fate.) (I Pondered The Reason Why I Continued To Exist.) (I Failed.) (Yet I Still Existed.)

(It Was Then That I Had The Epiphany.) (In The Employ Of The Enchantress, I Had Forced Myself To Exist Through What Willpower I Could Find Within Myself.) (My Will Was Then Broken, Yet I Still Existed.) (The Enchantress Had Granted Me Access To Her Dark Power.) (She Then Reclaimed It. Yet I Still Possessed It.) (This Will...) (This Darkness...) (They Come From Neither Me Nor The Enchantress...)