She decided what she would say when the heavy door reopened and she saw Garth standing in a shaft of sunlight.

She tried to remember the VENI, but the hollow clang of the door had silenced even memory's echo of that haunting music.

So she waited silently, and as she waited the silence grew and seemed to enclose her within cruel, relentless walls which opened only to allow her glimpses into the vista of future lonely years.

Just once more she broke that silence.

"Oh, darling, come back! I WILL RISK IT," she said.