"But at the same time, if Ariel's eyes would just open, just for a moment--" Lux cut herself off, realizing she was drifting a little too close to her own history, to the war she had lost, which had little or nothing to do with a magical island from a human poet's imagination. "On second thought, you may be right, Miranda, and I'm reading too much into this," she said. "I apologize."