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The following speech is from a video game called [ファイアーエムブレム
新・暗黒竜と光の剣](http://www.nintendo.co.jp/ds/yfej/):

> 父上に万一の事があれば  
>  マルスは  
>  アリティア王家唯一の男子。  
>  世界でただ1人の  
>  神剣ファルシオン  
>  継承者となるのです。  
>  **あの子** は  
>  アリティアの希望  
>  アリティアの未来。  
>  **そのあの子** を…マルスを  
>  私たちに代わって  
>  導いてやってください。

I'm confused about the combination of その with あの. I remember learning
something like:

  * この - in the speaker domain
  * その - in the listener domain
  * あの - in neither domain

I don't see how 子 can be both "in the listener domain" and "in neither domain"
at the same time, so I don't think that's the right way to interpret it.
What's going on here?

(I think it's related to the earlier mention of あの子 somehow, so I highlighted
that, too.)
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demonstratives
What is その doing in そのあの子?
OK I posted this as a comment because I wasn't 100% sure of the correctness
but to escape the "post answers as answers" problem I'll just say it here.

So here you've got a speaker referring to this fella マルス. He's quite far
removed from the current setting, it seems, or perhaps metaphorically distant
as in on a different level as the wielder of the falchion, so this speaker is
referring to マルス as あの子.

Later on the speaker wants to repeat this reference and say "guide this
(aforementioned) kid." The speaker just said あの子 so by saying そのあの子 he/she is
referring to あの子 more as a linguistic thing, something that was just said,
rather than as a person who is both in and out of certain contexts. I think
this idea is supported by the fact that the speaker changes it to マルス
midstream.

あの子＝マルス (some mystical/legendary/whatever boy removed from the current context
and therefore あの)

そのあの子＝そのマルス (その emphasizing the description just given about legends and
whatnot)

Weird way of saying it? Maybe. But I think that's why it changed in the text
itself back to マルス.
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