Book 1, Chapter Six: The Wonder Stone, Pages 131 and 132

Alexander tugs
honey sunlight over an ear,
and smirks.

“Servant…
Since my youth, I have longed and dreamt to see for myself that great, big Ocean which bounds our world.
I had missed my chance
once before.”

He turns to the Servant,
wearing now the innate majesty
that pulls all fates towards him.
Eyes of starlight and morning dew,
a soul filled with countless dreamings,
and in him a lifetime of wonders,
and days soon to come.
He declares,

“But this time,
I will miss nothing.
I will see the Ocean. I will cross Paradise.
I will find the Water of Life and I will drink it.
And I will gain all that my heart desires.

So, yes. I am ready,
for the destiny that awaits me…"