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"He saide, yef she were wise and good, she wold not come in mennis chaumbres bi night
derkelyng without candell, nor to coll and kisse men in her beddis alone, as she dede."
Th. Wright Ed., The Book of the Knight of La Tour-Landry, Ch. 15, Folio 7b, col. 2, ca. 1450.

Red Dragon: To catch the lion's cub, you must enter the lion's den. [Drakengard, Chapter 13.]

"Wine high, Ban Chao provoked: 'If you don't enter the tiger's den, you won't get tiger cubs.'"
[超曰：「不入虎穴，不得虎子。超怒曰：「吉凶決於今日。(Good or evil depends on today.)]
Fan Ye, Book of the Later Han Dynasty (Hou Hanshou), Book 47, Biography of Ban Chao.

"Huang Zhong cried: 'Can you seize the tiger's whelps without going into the tiger's den?'"
[忠曰：「『不入虎穴，焉得虎子？』」]
Luo Guanzhong, Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Book 70, Chapter 25 [Mao, Expediency].

"If you don't enter the tiger's cave, you won't get a tiger cub."
[虎穴に入らずんば虎児を得ず (koketsu ni irazunba koji o ezu)]
Japanese proverb. [Nothing ventured, nothing gained. No pain, no gain. To care seeds ease.]

Émil: It must be fate that we ran into each other.

"Darkling I listen; and, for many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death."
John Keats, Ode to a Nightingale.

Hannah Diamond — Affirmations
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4MR2-v4oYg&ab_channel=HannahDiamond

4S to 9S: I was wounded in the battle before the virus attack, so I was in dormant mode 
when it was unleashed. That's how I survived. But now I'm all alone...

"Lady of the Lake went to Rock herself to sleep on Arthur's seat and the Lord of the Isles coming 
to Press a Piece and seeing her Assleap remembered their last meeting at Corry stone Water so 
touching her with one hand on the Vallis Luces while [t]he other un-Derwent her White-haven, 
Ireby stifled her clack man on, that he might her Anglesea and give her a Buchanan."
John Keats, Letter to Thomas Keats, July 17, 1818 ['Falstaff in the mouse Trap,' Hamlet, III, 2, l. 250].

A2 lacks outfitting of later models, yet can deal with food, she makes do without embarrassment.
She journeyed near forest to stack up on magical energy as guardian for release of Émil's growth.