![]() ![]() get round and scratch behind my right ear? You were unconscious, and you talked in your sleep. We don't know, but you can ask the Southern Oracle. That's not true! If it didn't really matter to you, you could tell me. ![]() We're tired of sneezing, go away! Nothing matters. If you don't tell me and the Nothing keeps coming, you'll die too! Both of you!ĭie? That, at least, would be something. You know how I can help the Empress, don't you? If I don't save her, she'll die! There's a terrible Nothing sweeping over the land! Don't you care about that? Morla! I bring terrible news! Did you know that the Empress is very ill? We haven't spoken to anyone else for thousands of years, so we started talking to ourselves. we haven't seen the Auryn in a long time. Please help me, Morla! Do you recognize this? He who wears the Auryn speaks for the Empress. But if you fail, the Empress will surely die, and our whole world will be utterly destroyed. You must go alone, you must leave all your weapons behind. No one can give you any advice except this. To find a cure for the Empress, and to save our world. If you really are the Atreyu we sent for, you would be willing to go on a quest? But I'll be happy to go back hunting the purple buffalo. I am the only Atreyu of the Plains People. Not Atreyu the Child! Atreyu the Warrior. ![]() If you don't want me here, you shouldn't have sent for me. I'm sorry, but this is not the time nor place for children. Now Bastian, you're old enough to get your head down out of the clouds and start keeping both feet on the ground, right? As to those riding lessons you wanted, you say you love horses and yet you seem to be afraid to get on a real one. And I'm very disappointed that you didn't even try out for the swimming team. She also says that you haven't been turning in your homework on time. She says that you were drawing horses in your math book. I got a call from your math teacher yesterday. Son, I think it's time you and I had a little talk. We can't let Mom's death be an excuse for not getting the old job done, right? But we have to get on with things, right? Bastian, we each have responsibilities. They were with him when he took the book with the Auryn symbol on the cover, in which he's reading his own story, right now. They were with him when he hid from the boys in the bookstore. Just as he is sharing all your adventures, others are sharing his. He doesn't realize he's already a part of The NeverEnding Story. Where is he? If he's so close, why doesn't he appear? He is very close, listening to every word, we say. He went through everything you went through, and now he has come here with you. It was the only way to get in touch with an earthling.īut I didn't get in touch with an earthling! My horse died! I nearly drowned, I just barely got away from the Nothing! For what?! To find out what you already knew?! I was sent to kill the only one who could have stopped the Nothing. I am the servant of the Power behind the Nothing. And I have been trying to help it.īecause people who have no hopes are easy to control. It's like a despair, destroying this world. Therefore, it has no boundaries.īecause people have begun to lose their hopes and forget their dreams. Every part, every creature of it, is a piece of the dreams and hopes of mankind. Don't you know anything about Fantasia? It's the world of human fantasy. And you, whoever you are, can have the honor of being my last victim.īut I can't! I can't get beyond the bounaries of Fantasia! What's so funny about that?įoolish boy. He kissed me again, deeper and hungrier than before, and I wrapped my arms around his neck and melted into him.If you come any closer, I will rip you to shreds. I'm not as impatient as you, Lord of Winter." Wrapping my fingers around his tie, I gently tugged his face down to mine so I could kiss him, reminiscent of our first kiss that had cemented the bond between us half a year ago. "A sacrifice I'm willing to make," he teased. "These things can take quite a bit of time, you know." "Are we still trying for a faeling?" he asked. "What do you think you're doing?" My lips protested, but my head moved to the side, giving him more room to kiss me. He caged me in his arms and leaned down to kiss my neck. In his office, he kicked the door shut behind him before setting me on the small couch by the bookshelves. "You're insatiable!" I laughed as he bound up the stairs. "We're alone at work," he teased, lifting me off my feet and walking away with me in his arms. "I do have a trick to get you to relax though."Īnd I knew exactly what his idea of "relaxing" was. ![]() “He leaned down and kissed me, warm and soft. ![]()
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