Nastajia has been keeping her emotions under strict control for a very long time – at least since her parents disappeared and probably longer. She had a couple hours’s notice before actually seeing Alexander, else we might have seen some very different emotions cross her face. Actually, we’re seeing her heart break over Alex for the second time – the first was when she thought he died all those years ago. He got over it as “just a dream” – for her it was all too real and she cannot forget. Oh, sure – her parents tried to tell her that eventually all human children stop coming to Dreamland. But she saw him enter the cave alone, and heard the dragon’s shouts. To see him again now, woke up her capacity for love…only to have it shattered all over again.