[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.]

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AGNIS

[voidhearts]

[Agnis watches all of this unfolding. Everyone preparing to fight. She feels like this is all her fault. She had the Voidheart sitting under her house this entire time and she didn't tell any of them. Because she didn't trust them. Because she wanted to make them prove themselves first. And now, everything is so close to falling apart, but....they're still here. They're still ready to fight.]

All of you...

[She can't help it. Tears starts to fall.]

Please...

[She's just Nessa's memories of Agnis, not the real thing. But, Nessa knows Agnis as well as she knows herself. So she knows exactly what the real Agnis would say right now.]

Please bring my sister back to me!

[cosplayed_out]

Agnis!

[she gets so startled she drops character for a moment]

W-We will! I swear we will!

[voidhearts]

Th...thank you, Tsumugi.

I. I'm sorry. I'm sorry I didn't tell you where the Voidheart was...I just.

I just wanted you to understand what Nessa has been through first...!

[cosplayed_out]

You don't need to apologize at all! Even if you had told me, I wouldn't have known what to do!

Please don't give up! I promise! The power of cosplay is strong enough to get us through this!

Re: AGNIS

[velluminous]

[ she produces a handkerchief (it's silk) and hands it to her. ]

We will. Absolutely.