[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.]

Comments

Re: [You have risen]

[warpweft]

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Nessa would have liked to have met you, Sprezzatura Vaux. To speak with you, from one witch to another, and share knowledge. She spent a lot of the last two months wondering what the would've looked like.

[She lets her go.]

Don't die until you get a chance to have that conversation. Which means you're not allowed to lose to that oni, under any circumstances. Understand?

Re: [You have risen]

[velluminous]

[ it's the past tense that really wallops her. she brings a hand up to her collar as Nessa releases, but doesn't actually straighten it...

don't die. ]

I understand perfectly.