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I'm so sorry... [In the midst of crying and his heart almost leaping out of his chest, he noticed, but he ignored, that Bae wrongly thought they had come through together to a land without magic; that The Dark One was no more, and that he himself had abandoned magic and returned to his old self.]

I'm so sorry, Bae... [He wanted to reassure him. He wanted to tell him that this was what had happened. But he couldn't muster the words, or the courage to lie to his own long lost son. He exhaled before he pulled away, resting a hand against the side of Bae's face as he shook his head with a desperate frown.] But this is not a land without magic.