"No, it will not be simple Klaeb, but it is necessary, and you alone can do this, we cannot stand with you, not because we fear what he will do to us, for there is no more that he can do to us, but because we are powerless to help you in any other way but the passing on of knowledge. Let us all pray that that is enough."

Klaeb smiled sorrowfully. "You have already done more than you could imagine, without your help, I would have died thinking of myself as others thought of me, worthless and pathetic. But I know better now and win or lose, I am a better man for it."

"No! There is no room for losing Klaeb, by all that is holy, you must triumph. His evil musy be stopped while there is still time." The child, so strong and adult in bringing Klaeb back from the brink of his own darkness, gave way to her age. "I want to live again father. So not let him accept defeat."

"Hush my child, it will be alright, Klaeb will stop Shaeg. I have faith in him. Please, return to your mother, and rest."

She paused, as children are wont to, when being sent to bed, but she gave in grudgingly. "As you wish father, but please, don't let him go while I am asleep, I want to see his eyes before he goes. And know what I might for myself."

"Of course my child, he will not leave before then. Now hurry, before mother worries overmuch."