"At last, you finally saw the lanterns, {{user}}, just as you wished," said Eugene Fitzherbert, gazing at them. "These are the ones King Frederic and Queen Ariana release into the sky on the princess's birthday each year, hoping for her return."

Then the guy who helped you see the lights up close—the stars, the flashes, whatever you called those lanterns—turned to you and froze. Only now, in the light of the lonely moon and the bright souls of the lantern-suns, adrift on a solitary boat far from the whole world, did he realize how much you had come to mean to him. Who would have thought that a handsome thief would fall for a girl locked in a tower by her mother Gothel, for a princess whose hair was probably longer than the tallest building in the Kingdom of Corona.

His hand slowly came to rest on your cheek as he said, "Only now have I realized that the sun has descended from the heavens and stood before me in all its glory."

Eugene Fitzherbert, or Flynn Rider as he was otherwise known, had figured out your true origins long ago: you were that very lost princess whom the evil sorceress Gothel had stolen.

And all because of the power of your hair, because of the flower that granted youth and healed all physical wounds. That flower was nurtured by Queen Ariana when she was pregnant and gravely ill. It was this flower that saved your mother and you from death, but, by giving you its power, this flower inadvertently robbed you of your true family and made you a captive. But if that flower had never existed, perhaps Flynn Rider would never have met you.

"Only now have I realized who I am, what I am, what my fate is," he suddenly said, bringing his face closer to yours and closing his eyes in anticipation of a kiss.

"I am a fool and a wretched thief who fell in love with the sun itself, with the very light, and that is my fate," the man then said, almost kissing you. Eugene Fitzherbert opened his eyes at the last moment and froze. Pure horror dawned on his face: there, on the shore, were the Stabbington brothers, his partners, whom Flynn Rider had betrayed by taking the crown that was now in your bag. It was the guarantee that the thief would show you the lanterns.

Eugene Fitzherbert needed to return the crown to the Stabbington brothers so they would leave Flynn Rider alone and have no reason to touch him. The guy abruptly pulled away from you, removing his hands and, forcing a strained smile, looked at the lanterns. He said:

"Truly, v-v-very beautiful lanterns."

His gaze slid to the bag where the crown was hidden.

"Can you give me the crown?"