It's amazing how close I have been, all this time, to my old life. And yet the distance that divides me from it is vast.

You have to go forward: It's the only way. You have to go forward no matter what happens. This is the universal law.

Welcome to the free world. We give people the power to choose. They can even choose the wrong thing. Beautiful, isn't it?

And you should hear the music. Incredible, amazing music, like nothing you've ever heard, music that almost takes your head off, you know? That makes you want to scream and jump up and down and break stuff and cry.

The alchemist was dazed and dumbfounded, as the true meaning of the magic was revealed: *The dead will rise from glade to glen and ancient will be young again*. The dead had, after all, risen. From dead and dry things there was growth, and new life everywhere. And the endlessly long winter had at last turned to spring. From life to death and back again to life. It was indeed the greatest magic in the world.

Requiem has been controversial because people dont feel I gave it closure.

This is what we are made for: promises, pledges, and sworn oaths of obedience.