"Dawn breaks over city, altered landscape, withered roses. Radiant sunlight exposes knight errant, devoid of pity, searching rubble which encloses kingdom's devastated palace, yesterday's aforethought malice. Dulled by arrogance knight closes arduous quest for queen's chalice, wrecks surviving architecture, navigates out of prefecture into region far less callous. Next year brings sublime emergence: goblet raised, Queen toasts resurgence..... " Tanya awakens, recalls odd dream with stunning clarity: dark knight, kingdom warned of defilement and, most disconcertingly, she had recognized hers... Show more