>>5800520>>5800521>>5800844>>5800902>>5801101>>5801303>>5801369>Tell me more about my son. I want to know. I need to know. Right now.Your hands are on the band of his medal, and they're shaking. Helga puts her cold hands on your arms from behind, trying to offer quick words of comfort, but you barely hear them. You barely even feel her. There's a war going on between you and the waver of desperation in your voice. You're losing.
"A-Ah! What- what is there more to tell, ehm... Your son, Takeru, he had mentioned he was training for something. A grand quest of sorts! I assumed this was something to do with the Kamigi, but it always is in the Northern Isles."
He doesn't understand. He never could. Even with all his years studying your land and its culture, there are things only your people can truly grasp about the gods of the Isles and the Kamigi, the Divine Morality.
Once the <span class="mu-r">Corpse-Collector on the Rivers of Blood</span> had grown irritated and tired of your hesitation, severing your bond of service and damning you to eternity held over the Abyss, she must have sought a new vessel to act as her immortal agent. Proud and spiteful, in her eyes this was only poetic justice for your disobedience. And the will of the Kami is absolute.
Aleister had kept rambling even as his undead relatives plucked your hands away from him, the ringing of horror in your ears starting to wane.
"...e was quite fit as well, I'm sure the girls were hanging off each arm whenever he went into town!"
Helga had stepped between you and them, putting to work her skills in diplomacy and linguistics to ease the tensions that had snapped taut in a moment.
>I need to get to the streets. It's coming for me, he's coming for me. I need to find him first, or at least prepare. Please, help me.>Make a dash for it while they're distracted. This is something you won't be dragging anyone else into. It could mean worse than death.>Your bond may be severed, but if she can still find you she must be listening. Tell her exactly where you are. They will come to you.>Write-in 