[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

[cosplayed_out]

I felt it react, but it seemed unaffected.

2/3

[cosplayed_out]

...!

3/3

[cosplayed_out]

There's some sort of Void energy coming from the outskirts of the village! Maybe it's connected to the barrier! We need to go there!

[velluminous]

[ reappearing a short ways away with a deafening BOOM ]

Wh... What? How do you know that?

[cosplayed_out]

When that attack hit me, it changed the ability I had before. I can see void energy now. I have... special eyes.

And there's void energy coming from the barrier toward the village outskirts.

[velluminous]

[ she looks briefly stunned, but then it's relief

We have to go now.

[cosplayed_out]

All of us! They won't follow us through the barrier.

[velluminous]

[ i dropped my end bracket ]

Quickly. I wish to make her sweat.