Unable to keep her angry front up, Marianne collapses back into Bog's arms and buries her face against his neck as she clings to him with her free hand.

"They need you too! I need you!" Marianne cries. "You can't do this! There has to be another way!"

"There isn't," Bog mumbles into her hair, not caring as her crown scratches him. "I know I'm asking a lot of you to raise our young without me but it's what I'm doing if I...if I don't make it."

Marianne doesn't bother listening as the other's express their own arguments, she can only cling to her husband as his free hand brushes against her swollen stomach in a last caress. A husband she's only known and had for nine months. A husband she loves more than she could even describe. A husband who's given her two precious children, one that he sired and the other he saved. A husband that she's about to lose.

It isn't fair!

WHY? What could these monsters possibly hope to gain from their attack?

Almost every goblin she's come to know and love over the past nine months is dead. The royal guards lost their mates, children, and families. Griselda will never see the birth of her son's infant.

She resists Bog's insistent pulling for her to release him. Now she knows how Puck felt when she forced him to go back to the palace with her father when they evacuated the festival grounds. How could she let go when this may very well be the last time she sees him?

"Marianne," Bog pleads. "You have to go now!"

"I'm...I'm not...I'm not strong enough, Bog," Marianne whimpers.

"You are strong! You're strong and feisty and wild and chaotic. You're a wild thing," Bog quips, chuckling slightly.

Marianne returns the chuckle weakly before choking on a sob and squeezing her eyes shut. She doesn't feel strong. Her wings feel heavy against her back and she could barely breathe from the pain radiating from her heart.

Renewed growling alerts the somber group to their opponents' moving and Cecil calls out the warning. Her home is gone, her people attacked and killed, and now they're going to take away her love as well.

It's hopeless.