Ah, but you are wondering: why am I seeing this? Eh, fool?

Hahahah! They do not understand the trap I have laid for them, master!

Indeed! Your haste has doomed those that you sought to aid...

...and even now they struggle and squirm in despair!

They are trapped in nightmares of their own making...

...the consequence of shattering the Hall of Worlds!

And even that is a minor setback! We will use the world-walker to create a new Hall!

Conquest and victory shall be ours! Luina!

Y-Yes master!

Show our foolish guest what hells their friends are enduring!

My pleasure, master!

A world of heroes and sorrows...

Faelan...Adriesta's...she's dead...

Fire wood girl is gone?

Yes...it's all my fault...

We must flee.

Flee where? How?

So many stinky poo, water thing!

I am still divining a way out. We need more time!

All right. T-Take Adriesta and this foo--

Urk!

Water thing!

F-Faelan! What...

Y-You are going, then.

A wolf of the Isengrim a-always knows her way!

Run away, packmates!

I...understand. Die well, Faelan of the Isengrim.

No! NO!

Let me go, Ilm! Let me go!

FAELAN! NO! FAELAAAAAAAAAAN!

Awoooooooooooooooo!

...of friendships in despair...

We're surrounded, it seems.

How are you feeling?

Strangely better. Well enough to fight, at least.

So do I!

No one was asking you, idiot.

Gabriela!

My apologies...

No matter. It all works out in the end. Faelan?

I'm okay! I'm still looking for a road home, though...

Ilm? Any luck on that escape plan?

I am still divining a way out. We need more time!

Well, hurr--

Faelan. Promise me one thing.

Don't have to--

Live well, Faelan.

Ha--let me go, dead woman! Let go!

Ilm, Eerikki. I'll make an openin--

We'll make an opening and buy you three time to escape.

I can fight!

You can fly, idiot, and you need that now more than ever!

Go.

Let me go! I want to fight too!

I...understand. Die well, then.

You and me.

And several thousand demons for company. Hey, that rhymed!

Really? Ugh.

Thank you...

For what?

For staying. Here, take my hand.

Okay...woah! What was that?!

A-A portion of my power...and my soul. A meager inheritance...

You'll need it.

O-Oh! T-Thanks...Gabriela Ninlil?

Indeed. And now, Adriesta Vastir...m-may I have this dance?

Only if you lead. I'm terrible at dancing.

...of immortal questions...

They are dead.

Or they would be, if they had stayed.

I do not understand this feeling.

This is an illusion. I know that much.

But yet it is an unescapable reality for me.

I have divided myself countless times, diminishing myself to seek a path.

My eternal flame gutters out in failure, bit by bit.

They are not here. Only the enemy comes to accompany me in my final moments.

I have not divined a way out, but....

But I shall not permit their death.

Why? I do not understand. Death should not matter to me.

They should not matter to me.

Strange water thing!

Ilm! What are you doing?!

Wha--

Il--

But they do. A conundrum I do not believe I will comprehend.

Or do I not wish to comprehend it?

No matter. I have sent them away, to the place where I first met them.

That much, I can do, even as I slowly fade...

And yet I have glimpsed a world where their stories are not yet told...

A world where the Raug exist, not in fear, but in triumph.

I have sent a piece of myself to that world...

So, this is death. How cold.

...of futures drowning in defeat.

But these things are not fixed, and should one shatter the nightmares...

...the light of hope can still be made to shine brightly.