In a little house, beside a fireplace, an old woman is talking to two visitors who ask her to tell them a story. The young man asks for the story of the Balance. The old woman chuckles, and says it's much too late for that. Instead, she tells them a story that she heard a long time ago - "a story that, like all good stories, begins where it ends...in a tower, in a realm that is no more." April hears another noise and turns, seeing an enormous black ball of energy rise from below the cliff. As April stares at it, a whip of energy knocks her off the cliff. She falls, screaming, into the abyss.