The Dragon Prince

Death Alive In darkness thrives

They wither and writhe In Sun's true light

But the Fallen One brings Eternal Night

Kosmo.

Hello? Anybody in there?

Wake up!

You were faraway in a trance, dreaming again.

You were saying that scary poem.

It's not a dream, Astrid. It's what's coming.

It's what is to be.

What does it all mean? Death alive? Eternal night?

It means the Fallen One has returned.

No… someone has to do something!

They can't. They won't. They don't know.

They don't know.

The dragons, and the elves,

all the arrogant fools

blinded by the searing light of their own self-righteousness.

They stand high, and they will fall hard.

Ethari?

I'm terribly sorry to bother you so early.

There's something… there's something you should see.

Mm.

It's his, isn't it? His lotus.

Somehow Runaan must be alive.

No. It's not possible.

The enchantment has weakened, and now the lotus floats.

He is gone.

Forever.

I do not wish to rest.

Patience.

You've only been back in this world a short time.

You need to gather your strength.

What I need… is to return to the Silvergrove immediately.

-To Ethari. -Soon, Runaan, I promise.

But Lujanne is right.

Please, just try.

An elf needs his rest.

Don't wait for us, Callum. I know you're worried about Katolis.

There's a lot of smoke.

So much that you can smell the fire all the way up here.

-I'm afraid something terrible happened. -I know.

-That's why you need to go. -

I guess I'm also worried that…

you'll go back to the Silvergrove without me.

I don't want to be separated again.

Oh, Callum. You're stuck with me now.

Stuck, I say.

Like two adoraburrs cuddling on a cold day.

You go ahead. I won't leave without you.

As soon as Runaan is better, we'll come and find you in Katolis.

I promise.

Manus Pluma Volantis!

Okay.

Well, you're back in the world, Claudia fulfilled her promise to you…

Perhaps it's time we go on our way.

You look quite capable.

I'm sure you've got it from here.

You owe me nothing.

But I owe you, Claudia, my eternal gratitude.

I sense you have a question?

I have to ask you…

He's gone, but is he gone-gone?

My father, you helped me bring him back before.

Can't we just do it again? Even if it's just for 30 days?

Last time, we were able to preserve his body in a nebula-chrysalis.

It's too late for that now.

But there is one thing.

When anyone dies with great trauma

and with unfinished business,

they can become caught in a place between life and death.

A place called the In-Between.

What are you saying? Do you… Do you do you think my dad's there?

It's possible.

Wait, why are you doing this? Getting her hopes up?

I merely answered her question.

Claudia, when your dad left us, he was a changed man.

He found peace.

He found his truth.

It's hard to lose him, but he's passed on, and it's time to let him go.

It's time to grieve.

But what if he's caught there, in the In-Between?

Shouldn't we check?

Shouldn't we make sure?

No.

No…

How can this be?

What…?

Oh, my…

No!

I'm…

I'm so sorry.

I, I… I tried to protect our home… everyone's home,

but there was…

Soren, what happened?

But there was nothing I could…

there was nothing I could do.

There was nothing…

The In-Between can be entered through the Moon Nexus.

There are ways to create a portal in,

but getting a lost spirit out is a bit trickier.

We need a moon primal stone.

Finding one could take us a hundred years.

Or we can make one.

That.

Let's do the plan that doesn't take a hundred years.

It requires an exceedingly rare ingredient

that can only be found at a place

where unicorns once roamed, the Garden of Innocents.

Wait, I've been there.

As a child.

I had a magical map.

Babe, you never cease to amaze me.

I kept the map in an abandoned house that once belonged to my father's teacher.

A creepy old mansion called the Puzzle House.

Then we will find this map.

We will get what we need to make a primal stone

and then we will invert the Moon Nexus itself.

Hey!

When I heard about the attack, I was afraid you were dead.

No way, man.

I'd have definitely told you if I was dead.

No.

No, you wouldn't have.

Right.

Oh, right. Right! Because I'd be dead!

Corvus…

What… what happened?

Go on, you need to tell him about your predictions.

They're not predictions, but rather realities yet to pass in time.

The Fallen One has returned.

He is in this world,

and he intends to release the dead into the world of the living.

No one will stop him.

But you said yourself, it's because they don't know.

We have to warn the mage and the warrior.

We have to tell them.

No. I forbid it.

Even if events could be changed,

it is not our place, it is not our culture as Celestial elves.

Not our place?

Didn't you hear what Kosmo and I just told you?

We are watchers. Observers.

The heavens reveal their secrets to us

only because we make a sacred promise that we will never interfere.

Well…

I never promised.

Hey, look what I found.

It's a little singed, but other than that, fit for a King.

King of what?

King of ashes?

Sorry, I was just trying to stay positive.

No, no, you're right.