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“Get out of the way, granny!” You push the fragile old woman out of the way and make it inside the building! There’s another enormous staircase in the center of the building! Nothing else aside from some patterns and drawings on the wall. You’ll take them up.
“NaaaAgh!” The weak seniors drop down like a falling tree!
“E-Excuse me!” Captain van Zullekom walks around the old woman. “I’m right behind you, Kobashi!”
“G-Guard, stop them! You’re allowed to use your forbidden sorcery!” The wretched old woman barks her orders.
“Understood!” Fiora starts channeling a spell. You feel like a force encircling the former orphan of the blue. Her area of influence starts growing. “…I’m sorry, Elder Langdon. But you weren’t supposed to last this long.”
“Wh—” The Elder’s voice turns to white noise and then she goes unconscious. You don’t have more time to watch the aftermath.
The endless stone stairway narrows the longer you continue, but that doesn’t deter you from continuing. At one point, Vanessa started to communicate with the Spiritism Phone Cube, talking about how exhausted she’s feeling, something she attributed to the fact you’re so high up on a mountain over 16,000 feet tall – you had another theory about her issues, but you’re feeling out of breath too. You reach the apex!
It's a round plaza with 6 pillars encircling a marble table. An abandoned sanctuary of sorts.
And there Marcela is! She was hiding behind one of the pillars peeking just in case until she noticed you! She’s wearing a huge blanket and drinking some hot coffee from a flask. She’s freezing! And so will you be in a second when the adrenaline runs out.
“OH! Thunderous WOW! B-Bashi?! Nessa?! Y-You guys came?! I thought you were dead!” Marcela has a grin from ear to ear. “How’d you find me?!”
“Kiiiiii….” Vanessa wanted to respond but she’s frozen solid. That’s what she deserves for wearing only a shirt. You give her your coat. “T-Thank y-you!” N-Now you’re freezing. F-Forget it, you’re a man, y-you can take this.
“E-Ema! Ema is here!” You shout as you turn around. No time for a nice reunion or an explanation. You two get closer to the grinning spiritualist! “Let me explain everything!”
“I-I know she’ll be here at any moment! That’s why I’m waiting here!” Marcela’s hand leaves the warmth of the blankets to showcase its thumb up. “Hold on, this is the same Ema you met? What did those guys do in their lab…?”
“Bombastus is a little bit of a Mad Scientist.” Vanessa casually responds.
