I watched you a moment ago with Ellie.
My mother used to sing me that song. I have not heard it since. I think she must have made it up.
S2Ashes, Ashes
[sighing] You are remarkable.
[smile in her voice] I hope you were not talking about my singing.
No, I'm not...How much you give to them...to all of us.
To be able to give is what all of you have given to me.
I have something very hard to tell you, Eric. No words of mine will make it any easier.
Is it about Ellie? Is she better now?
She wanted to get better, to come back to you. She fought with all the strength she had in her. But sometimes, bad things can happen in life, and all our courage and all our love cannot change that.
Ellie will get better. She promised.
Ellie loved you very much, Eric, but we cannot always keep our promises no matter how much we try or how much we love.
Ellie will. She's different.
Eric...Ellie is gone.
You liar! Liar! [pelts Vincent with his fists]
They need you, Father. Eric needs you.
Eric. Ellie was the last family he had in all the world.
No. He has us. But he does not know that now. He ran off. He is all alone with his fear and his grief.
Eric? It's Father. May I come in? ... It's all right not to talk if you don't want to. What are you writing?
A letter to Ellie.
A letter?
To say I am sorry...because I said I hated her, but it wasn't true.
Then...just say that...I know she will understand.
Will she be mad at me?
No.
But how am I going to send it to her?
I think I know a way...Umm...I would like to write a letter to Ellie too...Maybe you could lend me a piece of writing paper.
[speaking of Dimitri] Poor man, to come so far only to have his dreams turned to ashes in his hand. Even if Dimitri had lived, he would have found Anna too late.
Perhaps he knew that even when he first received her letter.
But he came, anyway.
He loved her. He had no choice.
Even though he already knew.
One either moves toward love or away from it, Catherine. There is no other direction.
Sometimes bad things happen in life and all our courage, and all our love can't change them, and then all we can do is cry for those we've lost, and remember them always in our hearts and go on.
S2Dead of Winter
The world above us is cold and gray, summer a distant memory. Our world too has known its winters, so each year we begin this feast in darkness, as our world began in darkness.
Long before the city above us raised its towers to the sky, men sought shelter in these caverns.
In those days, these tunnels were dark places and those who dwelt in fear and isolation.
This was a land of lost hope and twisted dreams, a land of despair, where the sounds of footsteps coming down a tunnel were the sounds of terror. Where mean reached for knives and rocks and worse at the sound of other men's voices.
At last a few people learned to put aside their fear.
And we began to trust each other, to help each other.
Each of us grew stronger, those who took the help and those who gave it.
We all were a part of one another, one family, one community. Sometimes we forget this and so we meet here each year to give thanks to those who have helped us and to remember, even the greatest darkness is nothing, so long as we share the light.
Darkness almost engulfed us, but our unity gave us strength. Our shared light showed us the truth. As we part for another year let us remember. Darkness is only the absence of light...and all winters end.
Vincent, it's beautiful. Remember how I told you that when I was little I was afraid of the dark. My mother gave me a candle to light at my bedside before I went to sleep. Just a tiny little thing, a birthday candle. Somehow, it made it all right. I have loved candles ever since.
This is no ordinary candle. This is for Winterfest. It is a special time for us. We have other celebrations, all the holidays and traditions we share with your world, but Winterfest is our own. A time to remember the past, dream of the future. Each year, we deliver these candles to our helpers in the world Above. Without their light, our world would be dark. Our lives would be cold without their warmth.The candles are our way of saying that they're a part of us. Everyone, the entire community has agreed this year that Winterfest would be incomplete unless you are there.
Third of a century? Hard for me to believe it, Vincent. You were only a babe in my arms that first year.
My oldest memory is of a Winterfest. I must have been three or four. I remember a cold, dark room. Footsteps echoed all around me. I was frightened. Devin held my hand. Then, they lit the candles and the darkness pushed back. When I saw the tapestries for the first time...they took my breath away.
Can I lead you through the dark?
There is no darkness, Vincent, when you are with me.
[tapestries] Wonderful. Where do they come from? Who is the artist?
It is a mystery that we have never solved, Catherine. Perhaps, they are enchanted. I use to imagine they were magic windows that if I stared at them long enough and hard enough they might open up and I could pass through to another world. But when I reached out, they were only cloth.
Pascal, why are you leaving so early?
I have to check the pipes.
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