"For what is a king without his people," Anselm said. "What is a man without his humanity." "For what is humanity without its destruction," the demon lord answered. --- Before Elizabeth, before the Proxy, before the war of good and evil, there was the fair king Anselm. There is always a beginning to the beginning, before the before, an infinite circle across the constant. There is no end, no after. Only beginning; before. Only beginning.