I'm sorry, but this is not the time nor place for children. I must ask you to leave.

If you don't want me here, you shouldn't have sent for me.

It was not you we sent for. We wanted Atreyu.

I am Atreyu.

[laughs]

Not Atreyu the Child! Atreyu the Warrior.

I am the only Atreyu of the Plains People. But I'll be happy to go back hunting the purple buffalo. [turns to leave]

No, wait! Come back, please. If you really are the Atreyu we sent for, you would be willing to go on a quest?

Yes, of course. What kind of a quest?

To find a cure for the Empress, and to save our world. No one can give you any advice except this. You must go alone, you must leave all your weapons behind. It will be very dangerous.

Is there any chance of success?

I do not know. But if you fail, the Empress will surely die, and our whole world will be utterly destroyed.

[Atreyu takes off his bow and quiver of arrows and lays them on the ground]

When do I begin?

Now. And you must hurry, Atreyu. The Nothing grows stronger every day. Take this. [Cairon places the Auryn necklace around Atreyu's neck] He who wears the Auryn speaks for the Empress. It will guide and protect you.