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Nessa ([personal profile] warpweft) wrote2023-02-10 06:39 pm

[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.]
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[personal profile] messianic 2023-02-15 04:24 am (UTC)(link)
If I could...?

[ ... 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.