>>6187623Willow tilts her head, gives you a tear-eyed grin as her chest shudders. It looks like a dark mockery of the Salicera Fors you used to admire, before you knew the Willow Stark you chose to trust. “You’ll thank me for this.”
And then the thing — the wriggling, squirming worm — launches itself in the air, landing on her arm.
“Willow, n—” you try, holding out a hand, but she’s too far away, and you can’t stand up. You can’t do anything but watch as the worm slides up her arm, coils over her neck and then slithers inside her mouth — head, throbbing body and all, each of its wriggling coils disappearing past her lips.
“Gack,” Willow sputters, covering her mouth as if she were about to puke.
But that thing remains inside her.
“I— ghhk,” she spits, then walks up to the rod, tapping on it with her boot. “I owe it all to you. I now know what I was sent here to do. I am not the protagonist, Argia. I never was.” She raises her foot — slams it upon the rod, and the last source of light blinks away, leaving you in the utter darkness. “Ironic,” says Willow’s voice, and then there’s only the sound of her foot, echoing off as she leaves, and Soralisa's terrified sobs.
And another woman’s voice — the same you heard once, in the Well, speaking to you through a corpse’s floating head.
<span class="mu-s">The Night,</span> it whispers,<span class="mu-s">is patient.</span>
<span class="mu-r"><span class="mu-s"> # # # # # # Silver Knight Quest — End of Thread IV # # # # # # </span></span>
<span class="mu-i">Argia Candente will be back on Monday, 17th of February 2025</span>
