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'Can you hear me?'
[JENK] "We can!"
[SHENNU] "We're on our way!"
'Come to my voice.' I say.
My voice would guide them. But first...
I stepped over across the fog of this black creeping around. I wandered adrift an illusionary Hainei. I saw below me a world of nothing but devastation. The world the Darkness sought, one as lightless as itself, and cruel. The future it portrayed to embody.
I stood over the mage deity.
'Stand.'
[ESKART] "..." He craned his neck up, looking to me with his eyes full of despair; "H-Huh...?! Who... who are you...? Were you... the voice that spoke to me?"
'I am. My name is Muna.'
[ESKART] "Qilin... you are one of the long lost Qilin..."
'I am the Goddess of the Mind. And I have come to save you.'
'The Darkness wishes for you to think you are alone, to think you are helpless and useless, but that is not so. Look around yourself Eskart. See your students in agony. The Darkness would have claimed them by now, but you are keeping it from doing that. You are holding the nightmare back. You haven't failed them yet.'
[ESKART] "Yet... but I-"
'No.'
[ESKART] "..." He looked back up to me after dipping his head again.
'Not while they still draw breath in the waking world, and you still persist to fight for them, nothing is lost. You haven't failed them, and now, you can turn this around, and prevail them. They're counting on you, Eskart.'
'You made mistakes before, and that led you to think that without the future, you had nothing. But you don't need it. You are strong, and you are capable. You have the volition to use. It's time you lived in the present.'
I offered my hand to him.
[ESKART] "..."
[ESKART] "You're right."
[DREAMED GINNUNGAGAP] "YOU WILL LOSE EVERYTHING YOU WISHED FOR..."
[ESKART] "..." He reached up and took my hand. "So be it."
