The meaning of a dream can be very obscure; and to the princess, John's answer means something that elicits a long exhale of breath, almost a sigh. How long and how far has she searched?

"Has Endymion been taken away?" She derives some comfort from speaking his name, to judge from the number of times she manages she use it. But the question itself is the beginning of an agitation.

Fate, once more, has come to thwart them?