"Love is beautiful but why must it also be a knife plunged in your heart when you least expect it? Why must it take your loved ones when you have only just found them? Love is beautiful but it is also cruel." »»----- ✼ -----«« Chrystal and Lyra always knew that a day would come that they would have to go to Middle Earth when it needed them most. Only they never expected a lot of things. For example, no one ever told them about their ancestor who lived there or the fact that they had to travel with fourteen men, sometimes fifteen. »»----- ✼ -----«« Chrystal knows that falling in love is forbidden. It'll break both of the lover's hearts to leave each other when the one has to leave to go back to the land of protectors, leaving their lover alone. But sometimes it is difficult not to fall in love with the small kindnesses a blond haired dwarf may extend to you or the glances he sends you when he thinks you aren't looking. And Chrystal learns that the hard way.