*** She fell into the knight's arms, devastated. The knight embraced her gently, looking straight ahead, back towards their homeland, where the castle was in flames. "Why...why?" The young princess shook her head and her frail body trembled with every loud sob. The knight looked down at the princess. He barely heard her next words, as they past through her lips, barely above a whisper. "Haru...be our...be my leader like you used to be." ***