[Endgame: rise or DROWN]

[warpweft]

[How long have you been exploring Nessa's palace now? You've met her family, viewed her memories, learned how to fight as a witch and tried to find the source of her power and the Treasure of her palace: the Voidheart. And along the way, you've tired your best, with mixed success, to avoid the incarnation of her eldest cousin and the representation of her trauma and fear, the Nightmare of Esmau.]

[Wherever you are in the Palace right now, you feel the ground briefly shake under your feet. Little shakes here and there haven't been out of the ordinary - Esmau is trying to blow the place down to the studs, after all. But that felt different. That felt....worse.]

[Your phone beeps as you receive a message.]

Comments

Re: COURTYARD

[velluminous]

What happened? Is she here?

Re: COURTYARD

[voidhearts]

I...I don't know who else it could be!

Agnis has always been able to fight off Esmau, but...I don't know! I've got a really bad feeling about this!

Re: COURTYARD

[velluminous]

[ no no no no no no ]

Agnis, who is this Agnist? Another cousin?

Re: COURTYARD

[voidhearts]

She's Nessa's older sister. She's the only one who's ever beaten Esmau in a fight in real life before, so....she's the only who can fight Esmau in here!

Re: COURTYARD

[velluminous]

[ tension ramping; her tail begins to flick ]

And where is she? Hearthside, you said?

Re: COURTYARD

[voidhearts]

Y-yeah! She lives there, and that's where that shaking came from, so...

[2+2=Probably Bad]

Re: COURTYARD

[velluminous]

...

Very well. I will go to her.

Re: COURTYARD

[voidhearts]

I-I'll go with you!

[TO HEARTHSIDE!!!!]