[She's quiet for a moment.] Not exactly. Darkness is always going to exist, and so will Daughters. [She tries to not think about Adamantis, and how Stanton just let him go and escape back to Earth because he was too busy with Serena.] Other reasons.

[The look on Vanessa's face is pretty much a mixture of disgust and horror. But there's also a part of her that thinks about the whole hero thing, and if heroes can't find a way to make it, what use are they. Maybe that's how the gods think. It makes her think of Selene, and of the other moon goddesses, and how they'd only give vague hints of what the girls should do before sending them to face the darkness.] Parents of the Year, right there. What does it really matter to them, when you can just be replaced if you fail. [She raises her eyebrows.] I wonder why that is. Maybe you don't smell half as tasty as kids than as you do once puberty smacks you.