[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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[messianic]

[ ...

It's a scene he's seen plenty of times in his nightmares, that's for sure. It's a heavy weight, a painful feeling, an ache of what he could have had if only they'd survived like he did--

It's not a shocking memory, but the ache is sharp nonetheless. And even worse... his mother had told him to live. Her last word, the last thing she could say, and yet...


He's sorry. That's what he knows. He can't drown here, he can't let this drag him down to the depths. But for just a moment-- ]

... Sorry, mom.

[ --for just a moment, he's sorry he couldn't do that much for her, and for his father. ]