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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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[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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