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Thank you.

You should return home. If we leave now, we can walk six leagues before

nightfall. Oh, and defend our host. Now is the time for celebration.

Ladies and gentlemen, tell your family, your friends, everyone you meet, that

our hero, the Darkener, is here.

Who delivered us an Elkenwood free of the Lightner.

A day I thought we would never live to see.

Thank you very much.

It's my privilege to serve you, the people of Elkinwood, with our efforts to

usher in a new era of peace for all the lands of Ultheria.

Hear, hear!

People have never witnessed the pow -wow, the darkener, before.

They've never seen magic like that unleashed.

She was so young.

Her name was Mary.

Known her since she was no higher than my knee. Why would she do this?

She was a Xerath loyalist.

It's been over a year since you darkened Xerath.

He's dead.

To its followers, he's not.

When I killed him, I only made him into a martyr.

Jesus! I told you to stop doing that.

Oops.

I could polish this for you. No.

Why are you still here anyway?

My mistress, Arden, commanded me to serve you.

I'm just following her orders.

Well, the next time I see you, Arden, sorry, your mistress, we're going to

a little talk about that.

Well, if the menial tasks that I've been performing for you aren't making you

happy, then there are other ways that I can serve you.

You know, even if you hadn't murdered my best friend, Your advances would still

be unwelcome.

She doesn't love you, you know.

And she never will.

Her one true love is a girl named Mia.

Was a girl named Mia.

Arden killed Mia.

She did it with her powers.

It was an accident.

But she'll never forgive herself.

And Arden will never.

Love another girl.

The darkening.

I know how hard it is for you. You're killing?

No.

It's fine.

We'll be back in Andover tomorrow.

As someone whose primary concern is for your well -being, I must advise you to

take a break.

And where would you have me go?

You're talking about Earth. The next portal opening is a long time from now.

I was going to give this to you when we were...

Both home.

It's a breach.

It can open up the portal between worlds at any time, anywhere.

Is this why you insisted we stop in Elkenwood?

Perhaps. And I thought it was so you could pay a visit to Lord Matthew.

No reason not to mix business with pleasure.

One more thing. Yeah. When you come back, will you bring with you some

chips, pink zingers, and cho -chols in the chocolate flavor? Yes, gladly.

Anything help?

You must tell her the truth.

Darkness can only be tipped by light.

Fate is inescapable.

Oh.

Trista?

Lord Seraph?

How can this be?

Uh, Trista, this is some new look for you. Are you feeling okay?

Lord Seraph?

No, it's Todd.

Todd Daniels, your partner Susan's therapist.

You are not the Lord Seraph?

Should I call Susan for you?

There's no need.

What did you say your name was?

Todd.

You're Trista.

I'm Todd.

Oh.

Forgive me, Todd.

I'd heard tell of this, but never did I believe it.

Fate truly is a remarkable thing.

Oh my god. Oh my god. What are you doing?

Shut up.

Are you going to kill me?

Yes.

Are you ready?

Ready for what?

No, no, no.

Lord Zareth.

My dear Jenna.

It feels

so good to be back.

What?

In the name of the world, am I wearing...

I

have something for you.

Thank you. I picked them out myself.

Thank you. I'm starving.

Delicious.

I have something for you as well.

I wanted to get it right before I showed you.

Is it a new magic trick?

It's a different way of harnessing my darkening power.

I can use it for good.

May I demonstrate?

Now?

Okay.

I'll do it just a little.

Are you ready?

Uh, yeah. Okay, here we go.

Are you alright?

I'm good.

I didn't mean to.

Are you sure?

Yeah. So, uh... Oh, well, it's... It's taking

the dark magic and it's... You don't have to explain. Look, anything that

doesn't involve you severing someone's soul from their body is probably a good

thing. Yeah, you could say that.

I want you to know, the reason I don't ask you about your past, it's not

I don't care.

I would so readily listen if you were ever inclined to tell me anything.

I don't even know your last name, but I'm fine with not knowing because I

that's what you want.

Thank you for your concern.

The thing freaks me out.

Is it telling you?

We need to go to Andover Forest.

Yes.

Yes. Of course we do.

Hey, why do we always have to be on some quest?

We have to find everything that Zereth stole from Ultheria and brought to

Well, we've been searching and finding things for over a year now.

How busy was this guy?

What we're searching for today is very special. The Blood of the Stars.

The Blood of the Stars.

Why does everything have to have such a dramatic title? The Whisperstone.

The Portal. The Aegis.

Why can't anything ever just be called... I don't know.

The Blood of the Stars wasn't brought to Earth by Xerath. It fell to Earth in

the time before words.

One of the reasons Xerath came here was to find it.

It's a potion. Whoever drinks it has the ability to steal the magical powers of

anyone else.

So, if I drink this Blood of the Stars, I'd be able to take

your magic from you and become a Darkner? Yeah.

What would happen to you?

I wouldn't be a darkener anymore. I would be normal.

Normal?

Sounds dreadful. The powerful magic.

That's why we must find it and destroy it before it falls into the wrong hands.

That's absurd.

We should use it.

Surely there's another evil sorcerer out there and we could find him. I could

take his magic and then, if I have magic in me, I can use it to go through

the portal with you to Ultheria.

Hmm. Actually, it does sound like a good idea.

Oh, look.

I have waited so long to hold you in my arms.

Did you forget,

Katya?

Thou art mortal.

Where do you want it?

When I first saw this pole,

I knew that it would come in handy for something.

Someday.

I should have killed you.

Your words have never been spoken.

You could have never been with her anyway.

She didn't tell you.

But you know what?

You unburdened me.

So I don't have to keep Arden's secrets anymore.

The Darkener.

Their one true love can only be a sorceress.

A woman with unprecedented magical gifts.

And you are just a lonely, stinking human.

Be a good girl.

I missed you terribly.

I should explain the situation.

I have been resurrected from the world of the dead.

What you have around your wrist is an Asadis.

It will keep all of your magical abilities trapped within you.

So long as you wear it, you will be unable.

To darken.

It can only be removed by a sorcerer.

Ardent, you promised to behave.

told me that.

Hush.

There are whispers in the land of the dead.

The blood of the stars.

I need it.

I don't know where it is. You haven't destroyed it then.

Caught you.

Because I so prefer you in blue.

I find your traveling clothes tawdry.

Oh, calm now.

I had Gemma dress you. I'm not uncivilized.

I can't help you.

And even if I could, I wouldn't.

I suppose this is when you offered to make me your queen.

Not yet.

I have something else.

Special. Planned first.

Jenna!

Is she seen enough?

What a lovely name.

I couldn't have chosen a better one myself.

On the subject of names, what is your last one?

What? Your last name. What is it?

Drawing a blank?

Perhaps that's because you don't have one.

Perhaps you only go by one name, just like all...

Lighteners.

You don't know what I'm talking about either, do you, Jenna?

Allow me to refresh your memory.

What?

What did you do to her?

Fear not.

All will be made clear.

Please,

please, please no more, please.

We're not stopping until you've learned your lesson.

Desper, are you ready to seduce the Darkener?

I have dreamt of getting our revenge on Arden Lockhart for so long.

If I have to lose my memory and become someone else to do it, it will be well

worth it.

I may become jealous if I see you two together.

Jealousy is for the weak.

God, no.

No, I can't. No, no, no, no, no.

I think he needs another lesson.

You created that.

On the contrary, the memories are real.

It is you I created.

Vesper. Indeed.

Katya's true name is Vesper.

You I put under a simple spell of unremembrance.

But for her, I created a far more intricate spell.

I turned her into someone else.

She doesn't yet remember who she is, but by midday tomorrow, she will be Vesper

once again.

And what happened to me?

You are nothing but a magical fiction.

Your past, your memories, all created by me.

Tomorrow, you will be gone. But then again, you never really were.

Why do they always say that? Do you not find it odd that you have so little

memory of your life?

Where were you born?

Raid?

Who were your parents?

What did you dream?

Love is Arden's.

This was all part of my plan. I planted you in her life.

To win her trust.

Her love.

It was the only way I could ensnare her.

It's true.

It's true.

You're a best friend.

And we have lived a lifetime together.

I see the two of you have...

A lot to catch up on.

Didn't get it quite right, did they?

I'm Daniel, by the way.

Wizard in training.

Nice to officially meet you.

You're mean.

Unhand her. Give me what I need.

I heard what you said.

I don't believe a word.

Again.

Arden, I don't require that you do.

If she really is your cohort, I have no reason to help you.

Then I'll kill her.

You wouldn't.

I'll snap her neck right now.

I'll find another way to get what I want.

Fine.

I'll help you find the blood of the stars.

But we need the Whisperstone to locate it.

And where is the Whisperstone?

I had it with me in the forest.

Had you not so hastily slit my throat, you'd have it right now.

If this is some sort of trick, you know what will happen to her.

Which is why you know I'm telling you the truth.

I'll help you.

But how do I know you won't kill her even if I do?

You don't.

But, dear Arden, if you don't help me, you can be certain that I will.

What could I have forgotten?

You were spelled.

Vesper?

It's starting to come back to me.

Who I was.

Who I am.

The Vesper doesn't remember any of this.

But if she does, I think she'll understand.

Why

can't

we kill her already? Don't be rude.

Arden has our guests.

That's always how you treat your company.

Here.

I left it here.

Where is it?

Whisperstone!

Whisperstone!

It's Arden!

We need your help!

Oh, there it is.

Jenna, retrieve the Whisperstone.

She's the one that talks to it.

We can't have her tearing her dress in the brush.

Regardless.

Arden and I have much more important matters to discuss.

Arden and her bone -handled daggers. Does your darling Katia know what these

made of?

I have nothing to say to you.

Ah.

The poor wizard, Jorak, reduced to a simple tool.

I took him for his better.

A gruesome fate, making his bones into your toys.

Why was it that you showed him such brutality?

Brutality without quarter.

I do what I must.

No more.

Once I drink the blood of the stars, I will be able to take any magic I want,

including yours.

And your point?

I don't want to take your power from you and leave you as an ungifted, worthless

creature. If we could come to an arrangement to work as one, I won't need

to.

I don't understand what it is you see in me.

The world is your harem.

Both worlds are your harem.

Why am I so special?

You possess great dark magic.

Which is one of only two things in the world I want that I do not yet have.

You're an evil man.

What makes us so different in your eyes?

You're a warlord, a butcher, a murderer.

You have led as many men as I.

To their deaths. I don't kill the innocent.

And when the Lightners began using their own children as warriors, when you saw

their little dead bodies strewn over the field, did you relent?

I serve and protect the people of Ultheria.

I performed my duty.

Duty?

Don't hide behind the pillar of altruism.

You would have me look in the mirror and see a monster.

Tell me then, what does your own reflection show you?

There is also the matter of fate.

You must choose as your life makes someone of the greatest power.

Someone with light magic, powerful enough to temper your darkness.

I may not be what you had in mind. No.

I would excel in that capacity. My magic is pure light.

Let me in.

I could love you far more than you could ever love yourself.

After I killed you,

I had Jenna dispose of your remains.

I had her perform some handiwork along the way.

You suppose it's the old wizard's bones you were holding.

You should know it's the handle of this dagger was carved from the bones of your

body.

You look so lovely like that, yet it pains me.

You know, the world I come from isn't always so nice. You may picture birds

butterflies and magic, but oh, much more.

For example, one thing we like to do with our prisoners is hang them by the

wrist, stretch their arms so that they can barely touch the ground with their

tippy toes.

With your arms stretched like this, it becomes very difficult to breathe.

Every breath comes in such agony until finally you can't support your weight on

your toes anymore.

And then breathing becomes nearly impossible.

It's a lot like drowning, really, as you struggle for each breath as you slowly

suffocate.

I hear nothing.

Perhaps it doesn't have anything to say to you, General.

Francis, I will take your power, and I will make you my slave, and you will

spend every moment of the rest of your miserable life praying that I grant you

merciful death.

Cock it.

What?

I can hear it.

The person to whom it chooses to speak is the only one who can understand what

it's saying.

It wants to talk to her.

I have to hold it in here.

You know.

Can you get it off?

How do you wear it? It's all the worse. Did you find out a scientist? Can you

remove it?

If I can't, I have a spell to shield you from it.

I need a dagger.

I'm going to love killing you again.

Hush, my dear. The story's not yet over.

See, after we've lost use for you, we'll hang you up outside.

We'll peel some flesh from your back and leave it hanging there for the animal

to get at.

Birds of prey will eat the flesh from your ribs. Oh, maggots!

will grow inside your flesh while you're still alive.

Or, it could grant you mercy and break your legs.

That way, you can't support your weight anymore and you suffocate quickly.

This is our way.

I can breathe just fine.

Well, then maybe we should tighten your ropes.

to rescue you. A valiant effort.

I'll be an unnecessary.

I know.

Darken him.

Okay, you already killed him.

I can take care of myself.

Just rest.

You'll never find us here.

You should have left me there.

I'm not here.

Dave.

I swear.

Everything I told you about myself.

I don't trust you.

Zareth could still be lying.

He's not.

It's starting to come back to me now.

I'm so foolish.

There's so many gaps in my memory. So many missing pieces.

How did I not even realize I don't have a left knee?

No. He created me.

Dying is one thing, but never to have been real.

You are real.

I'm seeing you.

I'm speaking to you.

I'm touching you.

You've done so much for me.

You made me believe in myself.

But that's not real.

You never told me you could only be with a sorceress.

A darkener hasn't emerged for centuries. That rule, it's folklore.

I don't believe our fate is predetermined.

I believe we have control over our own destinies.

I wasn't good enough for you.

Because I didn't have magic in me.

I suppose I was correct.

No.

You're perfect just as you are.

I'm scared too.

When I was a young sorcerer, I made a foolish error and wound up with an

clasped around my wrist.

Alone and without my power, I wandered, lost in the forest.

I needed to get to the city in order to find another wizard who could remove the

Asadith.

I fell.

on a steep grade of shale and broke my arm.

I cried out in agony.

For the first time in my life, I was helpless.

Then a girl appeared, no more than ten years old.

She must have heard my cry.

Without a moment's hesitation, she ripped the hem from her dress, her

blue dress, and fashioned a sling for my arm.

She pointed me in the direction of Andover.

Like that, she went away.

Back to play with her friend.

Like a song from my world.

I researched the Dark Ages out of curiosity.

Come here.

I know how good your arms feel to me I want to protect you from the world

Is that the edge of the Andover Forest?

Of course it is.

It's wonderful.

Let's go.

We need to get there before I change.

We'll find a way to fix this.

We always do.

I'm sorry. I couldn't be real for you.

We can only be who we are now.

Not who we were or who we're going to become.

There is only now.

I don't even have a past.

It looks like I don't have a future either.

You do have a future with me.

You'll finish me off.

I don't want this other me to exist.

You know I always do what's right.

I know.

That's why I have to do this.

Katya? No!

No!

Couldn't even say it.

You will remember nothing of your life.

You will become Katya, the fictional human I created.

Her history will be yours.

You have become her.

Asper no longer exists.

Now, find Arden Lockhart and save

her.

Right on time.

Cassia? Wait.

What's happening?

What's that?

Hi. Me and Jessica.

Nice to meet you.

Cassia. I love you. You destroyed everything I loved.

Wait, wait, wait.

I can do this.

I can do this.

I'm a lightener.

Miss Katya, I don't expect you to believe me, but I brought you back.

No, I don't.

Harden.

If you don't believe me, that's okay. Kill me. I don't care.

But you have to keep the Whisper Stone from falling into Zara's hands.

It's by a tree.

Can't kill you.

I don't know which one of you you are Blast me

I know I shouldn't be here.

But I had to make sure you were safe.

Did you destroy it?

Do you believe it's me now?

Yes.

You shouldn't.

You're too trusting.

I'm leaving.

Go back to Alferia.

Wait.

You're not safe here either.

You're Lightner.

That means you can travel through the portal now.

Let's go home.

That wasn't the blood of the stars you destroyed.

That was a copy Zareth made.

This is the blood of the stars.

This.

You've been a very naughty girl, Arden.

Do you have the blood of the star?

Yes, I do.

I'm so pleased you have returned to us, Jasper.

The time has arrived.

All of your power will become mine.

This could have happened so differently.

I would have given you the world, and I mean that.

But worry not.

We'll still keep you as a pet.

Vesper, give me the blood of the stars.

Gladly.

Your turn!

Evangeline shielded me from the Asatis.

I knew it was you, Vesper.

You bitch!

I told you.

I always do what's right.

And that's what I'm going to do now.

you asylum.

Remain in the outer regions of Ultheria and no harm will come to you or your

people.

You know it won't work.

I don't have the power to revive somebody that you've darkened.

You're not the only one, Arden.

You're not the only one that loved her.

was younger, a tree branch fell on my face.

I was fine, but my eye was never the same, although I was sort of halfway

closed.

I tried to hide it with my hair, and I was really upset about it because I

thought I looked ugly, and I thought that was a silly thing to be upset over,

because there was a war, and I was worried about my eye.

And then finally, one day...

I told Mia how that made me feel, and she didn't say that she barely noticed

that I looked fine.

She said it made her love me all the more.

telling you this.

That you exist, even though you were never born.

That you only came to me about a year ago. That you came from nothing.

It makes you remarkable.

I'm amazed by you.

You have to fight to stay with me.

And if you can't, if for some reason your soul can't return to this body,

I want you to know I understand.

I do.

And you don't have to fight anymore.

You deserve to have peace.

I'll be fine.

Okay?

I know that when I die, you'll be there.

And we'll all be together.

And I want you to please take care of Mia.

Please take care of Mia for me.

I love you very much.

Wait. But I'm... I'm me.

Yeah. When I target your body, I kill Vesper's soul and... I guess

your soul is still intact.

So that means I'm real?

I'm me.

Excuse me.

Thanks for not killing me.

Oh, yeah.

What's this?

Oh.

That's the best part.

You're a sorceress now.

What?

Yeah, it's true. You're a sorceress.

You see? Prophecy is fulfilled.

So we belong.

Yeah.

I bet you can't wait to get that off.

And then I'll be a sorcerer? My sorceress. The most powerful one in the

universe.

You knew I was Vesper all along, right?

Yes.

Why'd you play along?

Well, I figured it would be best if I could destroy Xerath and handle Jenna.

dispose of Vesper, and rescue you all at once.

What if your plan hadn't worked?

Then I would have had to have killed everyone.

You would have killed everyone.

I'm impressed.

What if I'm Vesper now, pretending to be Katya?

Well, like you, Vesper was not very good at lying.

What's it say?

Before, when the Whisperstone told me how to find the blood of the stars,

it didn't tell me to go to our tree.

It told me to go to the place where I first knew that you loved me forever.

Across oceans of stars.

You found me.

Are you ready to go home?

Home?

What's waiting for me there?

An entire world.

Hello, Zereth.

Wakey, wakey, eggs and bakey.

What is the meaning of this?

Is your memory fuzzy?

Well,

long story short, you're not a wizard anymore.

I am still your lord.

Right, about that.

Due to your grotesque mishandling of the situation, Vesper is gone.

And that displeases me.

If you release me, there's a chance I'll let you live.

I've got big plans for you, Zerath.

From now on, you serve me.

Isn't she terrible?