[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

[messianic]

[ ... oh. It feels so...

Nessa really understands them well, doesn't she?

He holds the shard close for a moment, taking a deep breath. ]

... Thank you. We'll help Nessa-san. Count on us.

[survivaltricks]

[his fingers slowly curl around the shard, before he holds it close to his heart]

. . . yeah. We will.

Take it easy, Agnis. Get some rest. We'll take it from here.

[voidhearts]

H...hurry, please.

There's not much time.

[The path down the stairs is open to you....]