[This is the firmest handshake Volumen Hydragyrum is likely to ever see. Although after that's over, Rider looks pretty serious]

I see. Those are grave stakes indeed.

One is given to wonder if those are really the Seelie's motivation, though. It seems contradictory to fight so hard to simply allow something that's bound to happen anyway. And it isn't as if the people who have been brought here to fight would know any different if we asked them.

We need to find the heart of the matter.