At about the same time as the events in Babylon were taking place, Bernadotte and Liberty were residing in Neopolis.
Both were worried about what was happening in Babylon, and the latest events had made them worried about their future. But Bernadotte was offered an escape route.
He had sent out explorers to the four cardinal directions and one of them had come back with a request for Bernadotte to become the king of a harsh but rich nation called Scandza. But he first had to win Liberty over.
She was not that keen to move from Neopolis and Opal to a barren land she had never heard of before. But Bernadotte told her that even at that moment Neo's army was on its way to Neopolis and it was not to have a cup of tea.
"Our lives are in danger. Our lives, and that of the child you are bearing. We cannot win. We have not enough soldiers. And from what I hear MacDonald and Murat, as he calls himself now, are on their way with some assassins...
...Imagine, we could be king and queen in a land far away from here. No more wars, no more killings. OK, there is the climate, but we can build this country the way we see it. The way we had hoped Opal would have been." Deep in her heart Liberty knew Bernadotte was right, and in the end she gave in.