While Alcuin concentrates on hope, Thorne concentrates on power, on sharing hers with him and reawakening that which sleeps within him. Hoping against hope that this works the way that Naoki said it would.

And then it does and Alcuin transforms so beautifully and there's really nothing else she can do but throw herself at him, wrapping him tightly into a hug.

"You did it!" she says. "Oh my dearest, darling Alcuin, you did it!"