[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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[velluminous]

[ these big, fat, stupid tears are starting to roll down her hooked nose even as she continues holding him down and growling at him. the Clouds are soft in her palm. feels alien. ]

You and Nessa! I chose her Void Bolt, I chose your Invoke! How dare you act like this is meaningless? How dare you let apathy and your bitch grandmother win?

[ as she pushes the Clouds against his shoulder. Sprezzatura Vaux says #fuck family ]

[voidhearts]

[The clouds press against him and he sucks in a breath as the memories go through his mind. The memory of the times they spent together in their dreams...and the knowledge of all the effort she put in just to find him in the first place.

...tears start to build in his eyes, but don't quite fall.]

....why did she put in all that effort...

...why are you putting in all of this effort....

[The clouds fade....and so does the black hole. It slowly starts to shrink, until it's gone entirely.

The haze around the two of you starts to fade...]