Murgatroyd was waiting for me with my horse saddled.  “Are you sure you wanna go out there?  I’m already impressed from when you balanced that orange on your nose earlier, you don’t have to impress me any more.”

“This is not about impressing you, my dearest.  This is about protecting our land.”

“Really?  Cuz I could have sworn that when you were suiting up in your armor you were going ‘Hey Murgatroyd lookit me!  I’m going to fight the legions of death, Murgatroyd!  Hey, over here, Murgatroyd!  Murgatroyd, look!’”

“Alas, my fair one, our time is short.  The brave woman dies but once, and today that time might come for me”         

“I can have your stuff when your gone, right?”

“All our lives, our triumphs, our vanities, they vanish in death like the cloud from the mountain.  But love, love alone lives on.  When I die it will be with your name upon my lips.  And throughout all the ages of Man our love for each other will have always existed.  It will remain inviolate.  Eternal.”

“I want your Xbox360 when you’re gone.  I hear Viva Pinata is awesome.”  
 
Later my horse crested the hilltop and I looked down on the legions below.

“Holy shit, I didn’t realize there’d be so many of them,” I said to Daphne.

“Yeah,” said Daphne.  “And what’s up with the carrier jets?  Nobody said nothing about the legions of death having carrier jets!”  

We decided to call off the war and hold a Peace Council instead.  We had punch and cookies and tried to talk out our differences.

Murgatroyd didn’t come to the Peace Council.  He stayed at home and played Viva Pinata.