For everyone and everything, there is a time to die. Some do not know it, or would delay it, but its truth cannot be denied. Not when you look into the stars of the ninth gate.

“You are an adventurer!" exclaimed Sylvie. She tore herself away from the window…”

“Be careful..you're all I've got left, to remind me who I really am.”

“Does the walker choose the path, or the path the walker?”

“Our parts now -- which perforce we must play -- are not father and daughter, bu…”