Natalie is distressed. She had succeeded in letting Carter assist her in his mission to deliver the cure for the Northern Light Virus, but now that she was on the journey, she wasn't so sure if it was a good idea in the first place. Carter is annoyed. He had planned the journey to be only for him and Natalie, but it just so happened that Lusso had decided to send Ari with them as well. The kid who acted like their parent was getting on his nerves more and more by the hour, and it didn't show signs of stopping. Ari is bored. He had expected a summer of Light hunting with himself, doing nothing and sleeping. He didn't want to be in the journey, but as he continued his travel with the two teenagers, he found himself liking them more and more.

Tom Fraust's Journal For Future Purposes

"Do you want your life to change?" "Yes." "It's going to be harder than what it's supposed to be, is that alright?" "Yes." "Okay then, let's start with a giant troll barging in your door in five seconds." Phan doesn't want to be a prince. He doesn't want to do what every other prince do. He doesn't want to set on the same adventure to solve the same problem. He doesn't want rescue the same princess which is guarded with the same dragon-- Phan wants his story to change. Phan wants his story to be different, to be unique from all the prince charming who does nothing but to save people, have the perfect wife and live happily ever after. Because that's what everyone do in every other kingdom. Then they're going to be in the same process over and over again. Phan wants to slay dragons, conquer kingdoms, fight witches, defeat the trolls, go in a dungeon, poop on toilets, set on an adventure that everyone misses! On an adventure that is different. And he did. What are you going to do when you find out you're just another adopted character in another makeshift story? What are you gonna do if you find out you're having the same destiny as every other else? Phan is just another prince in a fairy tale. Just another prince in a book. But then . . . he met the author.