COME BACK...COME BACK... Surely, surely the vows they had taken so long ago had been meaningless, simply been part of a game—an ignorant, childish, and yes, an obscene game, but a game nonetheless. They could hardly be called to reckon for such foolishness now, could they? COME!... COME BACK TO SANSCOEUR! Yet they knew. They all knew that something foul and deadly awaited them, had in truth been waiting for them through the years—yes, something not human, something which called and called and called with eerie insistence... COME BACK, COME BACK, COME BACK!