[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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Re: [DROWN]

[velluminous]

[ her knees buckle and down she goes. the weight bears down on top of her like hands around her throat. she hits one knee, bracing herself with a whimper. there's nothing witty on her tongue, either, partially because the pressure is so immense that it feels like she can barely draw breath—but also because she's Sprezzatura Vaux, and she doesn't do charisma.

instead, the part of her that could bring her this far at all chafes under Esmau's yoke. now, it says. now. fingers grasping at the air, she makes a sound of painful, immense effort and tears a hole between dimensions. Void Fissure. ]