She went on because there was no going back.

Wake the sleeper must, and confront his fears, or risk being lost in the dark places of the mind forever.

Third person allows a deeper exploration of the relationships between characters. We can see their misunderstandings and hear what they think about each other. We can create a more complex structure with various story threads running parallel.

A wonder tale can be truer than true," I said. I had learned (...) that the deepest kind of truth can be found in the strangest and wildest of stories. One may not meet a fire-breathing dragon on the way to the well. One may not encounter an army of toothed snakes in the woodshed. That does not make the wisdom in those tales any less real.

Nothing comes without a price.

The warmth of his embrace soaked into me, a powerful charm against the dark things.

I should have realized, when Cathal kissed me in the hallway, that my response was the first raindrop heralding a storm.