[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

[survivaltricks]

[oh my god]

Damn right you are!!!

[. . .]

[well after he takes a moment to be sick, Akira supposes. Akira crouches next to him, hand on Caesar's back]

. . . if you puke, I'll hold your hair back.

[what a good dude]

[gravitonn]

Just. Just gimme one....

[Deep breath. And he stands back up and clears his throat.]

Nope, just in my mouth. We're good.

[The haze around the two of them begins to fade.]

Oi....I'll do everything I can from here.

Knock that smug look off of Esmau's face for me, will ya.

[survivaltricks]

[lifts up a hand for a brofist, his grin widening]

This upcoming asskicking will be dedicated to you, then.