He looked over at Alayre, a quiet smile sliding over his face. Of course the other man understood - from the moment they had met Norrington knew he had found a brother in spirit as much as of the armor. Every word rang like a bell in his soul, and he nodded his head in silent agreement, before looking up to the sky himself.

"I was starting to wonder if everything I believed, everything I was ... was just a lie we had all been telling ourselves." He whispered, looking up still, "But then we came to this place -- and it is impossible to despair here. If every man has a little idealism, then this place must have it soaked into the stones itself."