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"It takes soed or disappointed

"You drank the Kool-Aid, didn't you?"

"Hindsight" She winks "You see things differently through the rearview h This isn't going the way I want, even for a dream "So what's the secret, if not a way home?"

"Every battle-witch for a thousand years has contributed part of her oes to s "Its power is beyond anything you can i dor it uncertainly from my chest

"It can do much more than that But as my successor, it's yours to control"

"A little birdy told et it" That's why the ers are birds The subtle cliché hitsher

"It is But it's not what you think"

"Care to explain?"

"The Shadow Knight is the last of his bloodline If he dies, so does the ic My curse did more than I intended The s of Black Moon Draw fro their world I conderows soft

"So if he dies, the oes with him If the era ends, and he fails, their world ends"

She nods "And if the Heart falls into the wrong hands, it, too, has the power to end their world" As she speaks she approaches and picks up the hts up

"Triple wha with tears They aren't sad ones - but happy tears, if the joy on her face is any indication

"Why is it called a Heart?" I ask

She swipes at her tears and lowers the ave me I was his heart, his love, his queen This was fashioned as a wedding present Magic ave it power"

"Wow That's insanely roic to destroy the world Kind of ironic, isn't it?"

She laughs "That's why you're here! You can fix it"

I shift feet, not really liking where the conversation is headed It sounds like she expectslike I want "How?" I venture tentatively