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[ENTER THE PALACE]
[You find yourself with a sensation like floating in water.]
[Above, the sky is dark. You can occasionally see things shifting, like gusts of wind, or perhaps waves of water. Is it…even a sky above you? Or is it some kind of giant ocean? Whatever it is, you can’t make it out very well. All around you, you appear to be floating in what appears to be water. It looks like a great, wide ocean of…space in every direction around you, with stars and lights twinkling in the distance. It looks like water and feels like water, but it doesn’t make you wet. You can reach your hand into it and pull some out, the purple and violet water and the tiny points of light inside it will even rest in your hands if you cup them to carry it, but once you’re not trying to hold it anymore, it’ll flow off of you, not a single drop remaining behind. You feel something similar if you go underneath the surface. The “water” doesn’t touch your eyes, mouth or nose when give the chance, it merely drifts around you, allowing you to breathe and see unabated. And you can see for a great distance, the twinkling stars illuminating the ocean of space all around you. Though perhaps less dark and empty, it feels every bit as vast as the sky above. You feel like you could swim forever and never reach the edge.]
[It’s quiet, here, with little noise around you but the starry ocean’s waves crashing back into its surface. It’s peaceful. In another situation, it might even be comfortable.]
[Above, the sky is dark. You can occasionally see things shifting, like gusts of wind, or perhaps waves of water. Is it…even a sky above you? Or is it some kind of giant ocean? Whatever it is, you can’t make it out very well. All around you, you appear to be floating in what appears to be water. It looks like a great, wide ocean of…space in every direction around you, with stars and lights twinkling in the distance. It looks like water and feels like water, but it doesn’t make you wet. You can reach your hand into it and pull some out, the purple and violet water and the tiny points of light inside it will even rest in your hands if you cup them to carry it, but once you’re not trying to hold it anymore, it’ll flow off of you, not a single drop remaining behind. You feel something similar if you go underneath the surface. The “water” doesn’t touch your eyes, mouth or nose when give the chance, it merely drifts around you, allowing you to breathe and see unabated. And you can see for a great distance, the twinkling stars illuminating the ocean of space all around you. Though perhaps less dark and empty, it feels every bit as vast as the sky above. You feel like you could swim forever and never reach the edge.]
[It’s quiet, here, with little noise around you but the starry ocean’s waves crashing back into its surface. It’s peaceful. In another situation, it might even be comfortable.]
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run away. ]
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At their most dire moment, the Heart listened to the boy and the girl.
[The clouds rumble. A pulse comes out of the purple circle and knocks the monsters away.]
They asked it to protect them. But, even with what they had turned into, the boy and the girl could not bring themselves to ask the Heart to harm their cousins.
[The monsters land on the ground and are dragged back up by their strings and forced to attack again. The boy and the girl vanish, becoming grey silhouettes.]
The older cousin and the monsters she commanded looked for the boy and the girl and the Heart they had taken. But the Heart cloaked them from sight. Nothing was stronger than the Heart, and as long as it chose to listen to the boy and the girl and not their Grandmother, there was nothing she could do to them.
But the boy and the girl did not want to fight. And they did not know how to free their cousins. So they did the only thing they could.
They ran.
They heard their cousin barking orders at the monsters that their cousins had turned into. They forced themselves not to turn back around. They kept running, and soon, they didn't hear it anymore.
It would've been impossible for them to choose to hurt their family. But as they heard the noise behind them, they wondered if they had condemned their cousins to something worse than death.
[The boy and the girl eventually leave the older cousin and the monsters behind and the trees start to thin out.]
The boy and the girl reached the edge of the forest. They knew that once they left the forest, they could never return, and thus, they had no home.
The girl knew she had a family. Her mother had told her about them, at night, when no one else was listening. A father, a sister, a brother. They were why she had come to live in the Forest in the first place. Her children were sick, and she knew that if she used the Heart, she could cure them. When she gave birth to the girl inside the village, she tried to leave with her. But she the found the wall around the village that meant she could not leave. And everything slowly, but surely, fallen completely out of her control, leading to this moment.
The girl's mother was gone, now. But they had the Heart. And they knew that the rest of the girl's family as out there, somewhere.
Outside the forest, they were two worlds. One of the humans, who knew nothing of magic, because it had been purged from their world long ago. And the world of witches, who lived in secret realms, hidden from the humans.
The Heart could get them into these secret realms, if they asked it. But they didn't know where to search for the girl's family.
Where did they go?
[Where should they search for the girl's family?
> Search among humans
> Search among witches
> (choose something else)]
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search among the humans. the witches are kept away from the humans. ]
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[The trees fade into the background, becoming smaller and smaller as they're replaced by buildings, eventually making a whole city around the boy and the girl.]
The girl's mother had spoken about the outside world as a beautiful place, not a place she wanted to live hidden from. The girl thought this meant she had decided to live out in the outside world, among the humans. So the boy and the girl decided to search among the humans.
The world of humans was huge, dizzying and scary. Huge buildings, technology they didn't understand, even if the girl's mother had explained some of it to her and so, so, so many different people.
[The children are surrounded by tons of adults, walking by them in both directions.]
The girl had one thing, though. Her name.
In the forest, they'd all only had one name. But the girl's mother had told her her family's name. The name she'd gotten when she'd married her father.
The girl's mother had once told her the greatest gift her father had given her was his name, and the family they'd raised with that name. The girl had made sure she remembered the name.
[All of the adults fade away, until just one is kneeling down in front of the two children.]
So when asked, she told them. She told them her name, her mother's name, her father's name, her sister's name and her brother's name. And with her name, she found her family.
[A young woman with white hair appears.]
The girl's older sister found her. She had never known her younger sister existed, but she took both of them in, welcoming the girl and treating the boy as if he were her brother as well.
[The buildings fade away and a hill slowly rises out of the clouds, with a small cottage at the top. The boy, the girl, the older sister and another child, a white haired boy, stand outside the cabin.]
The boy and the girl came to live with the older sister and the older brother. It took getting used to, but the older sister loved them both very much and did everything she could to acclimate them to this new life.
Their grandmother, their older cousin and their enslaved cousins were still out there somewhere. They would not stop trying to retrieve the Heart from them. A time would come when they wouldn't be able to run away. They would have to fight.
[Everything else fades away....except the boy and the girl, standing next to each other. They reach out...and wrap their arms around each other.]
The boy and the girl had lost much, suffered much, and would suffer more in the future. They had both lost their parents. They had both lost their cousins. But for that cost, they had their freedom. They had the ability to live their lives as they chose from now on. They had a new family that loved them.
Most importantly of all, they had each other.
[The Boy and the Girl have gone as far as you can guide them. From now on, they'll have to make their own choices. You can say one more thing or tell them to do one more thing before you part ways, if you wish.]
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