"That's... Saiban's voice!"
Russell was astonished. Ever since the fairies had entered the Amber Dreamscape and merged with it, they had never returned to the Dragon Sleep Continent.
He had never expected to hear the fairy Saiban's voice here.
He quickly realized that Saiban's voice was coming from the forest at the foot of the northern slope of Starlight Volcano. After bidding the Starlight Remnants farewell, he rode Unicorn Polly straight into the forest, where countless species of trees grew in a jumble.
"Saiban, where are you?"
"I am everywhere, Russell. It was the voices of the Starlight Remnants that let me hear the call of free will." Saiban's voice was crisp and cheerful. "That call allowed me to cross the barriers of time and space and return here."
"Then what form do you exist in now?" Russell looked around the entire forest but could not find any trace of Saiban.
"I don't know. Perhaps I am a gust of wind, perhaps free will itself, or perhaps it was merely the thoughts of the Starlight Remnants that drew my attention here." Saiban could not make sense of its own state, but it understood that it had not simply returned to the Dragon Sleep Continent.
It swirled around Russell's ears like the wind. "I need your help, Russell. I came from freedom, and I must exist beyond freedom."
"I don't understand. Put it simply," Russell replied.
"Rules... For freedom, I merged with the Amber Dreamscape. But now, I want to transcend freedom. My will was granted by the snow forest, and my body was granted by the Amber Dreamscape. They are not free enough!"
Sacrificing itself for a greater cause? The thought suddenly flashed through Russell's mind.
But he quickly realized something. "Rules... transcendence... Saiban, could it be that you have