>>5994497>>5994466>>5994461>>5994278>>5994210>>5994209You decide to put off Arachne's body mixing off for now. She complains, but you're not a huge fan of your magic being separated from you when someone may or may not be after you. You can't say Dusk was ever a proper enemy, but he wasn't an ally either, you don't think he'd have any reason to go after you now that the game is over but...
well, that's assuming it's him in the first place, the similarities might be simply coincidences, it's just that you can't think of anyone else that you know that fits that description. Sure, he wasn't a woman, but maybe he used shadow magic to transition or something. Or was he always a girl and just never bothered correcting anyone? It's not like his body was human enough to tell.
Not like it really matters, you ask around where this woman might be, and you learn that she's hiding in the forest. You thought of doing an ambush, but maybe it's not a great idea to make another enemy when she hasn't done anything aggressive thus far. She had plenty of opportunity to attack your kids, and she didn't, so you'll give her the benefit of the doubt.
You decide to go to the forest 'by yourself' and reattach Arachne to you. Of course, K.I.S.A is scuttling close behind just in case, you're not THAT trusting.
Finding her isn't hard, it's more accurate to say that she found you. She's...a woman, alright. She has a simple dirty blue shirt with black plants that is tight enough to show how thin her legs are. It's a simple getup, and one different enough from the sword of dusk that makes you think it's probably not the same person standing before you.
"So you came. Saves me the trouble," she says, and point the blade directly at you. "...it's too late to go back now, of course. No more preparation, no more training, the last stretch. I'm ready."
You tell her you have no idea what she's talking about.
"Of course you don't. It was two decades ago, probably a footnote in your life's story. I thought about it. About making you suffer, but that's not final, people can recover from tragedy, I need you to end you right now, that's the finality I need."
Oh, so she IS here to kill you. That's...not good. Damnit, you should've gone for that ambush after all, but it's not like you could've predicted that she wants to kill you because uhm... mhh, you're not sure? She looks relatively young, maybe in her mid twenties, she said that it's something you did two decades ago, so she must have been, what, 10 at that time?
You think harder, what's something you did that would cause a 10-year-old to want you dead? She's not related to the bringer kid, he was an only child, maybe she's related to Oliver or the queen?
Arachne notices your thought, and shakes her spectral head, nope, not that either. Could it be...
You ask her if she was related to the criminal gang you wiped out.
