Just because you've seen something doesn't mean you'll stop looking. There's always something you didn't see before. - Lloyd Alexander

"It is not given to men to know the ends of their journeys," Medwyn answered. "It may be that you will never return to the places dearest to you. But how can that matter, if what you must do is here and now?"

"What! I don't care about being a princess! And since I'm already a young lady, how else could I behave? That's like asking a fish not to swim!"
~Princess Eilonwy, daughter of Angharad, daughter of Regat, of the Royal house of Llyr

In the algebra of fantasy, A times B doesn't have to equal B times A. But, once established, the equation must hold throughout the story.