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[Endgame: rise or DROWN]
[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.]
[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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[ Minato just tilts his head slowly at that, blinking. ]
... She's the only one who could say that for sure. But... I don't think it's a surprise.
Nessa's always been one of the bravest people I've met here.
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...
...
She stood up to the person she fears more than anybody.
[She half-glances at Minato.]
Because of you.
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His shoulders slump, and his head dips. ]
She saved us. ... She saved all of us. I really... really owe her so much.
[ for so many reasons and so many things. ]
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...
What would you say to her right now?
If you could?
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[ ... what would he say? There's so much that it feels practically impossible to try to boil it down to a few simple statements. But he tries, sitting there for a moment in silence as he thinks about Nessa, and-- ]
... I'd thank her, of course. I'd tell her that she's amazing, and that I'm grateful that we had the time together that we had. That I'm grateful that we were able to be friends.
[ ... ]
And... that I'll really, really miss her.
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I see.
Those are some good words.
Simple, but poignant.
[And then...something happens.]