Silver seems attached to his and Lilia’s home in Briar Valley and he is surprised to learn that Lilia had never intended to return to it after graduating from NRC. He asks what they should do with it and Lilia says they can “just let the forest take it again” if Silver doesn’t want to use it.
Silver responds, “I suppose I’ll decide…by the time I graduate,” but questions if it is safe to let Lilia go to the Land of Red Dragons alone. (“Maybe I should accompany him after all…”)
Sebek’s dream involves a dream version of Lilia who assures Silver that he plans to return to Briar Valley as soon as he graduates, saying, “Briar Valley is our home. Our house in the woods will be my final resting place…Besides, I would never go somewhere that far without you. Don’t you worry about a thing. Once you graduate, we’ll live together in that house in the woods again. Together forever…right?”
Silver responds that if that had been what Lilia really wanted, he would have gladly stayed with him forever.
Inside of Lilia’s dream Silver recognizes the smell of familiar woods, as the house where they used to live was across the mountain that they are traversing at the time.
Silver says, “…It’ll be okay. I’ll always carry the memories of my days there in my heart. No matter what lies ahead…I won’t go astray ever again.”
Silver says that he “found surprises at every turn” when he first left Briar Valley, and he would “see winged fae flying around all the time,” and would wish to join them when he was a child.
Silver struggles in Lilia’s dream while climbing Mount Dread, describing “sharp rocks protruding out everywhere like so many blades. It’s like the mountain doesn’t want us here…”
Lilia explains that the magic suffusing the mountain empowers the fae, but it could be harmful to humans.
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