>>6056594You follow her as your heart keeps beating in your chest. Too many emotions, too close together.
You two finally reach the vestibule and your hands reach for your clothes, folding them and putting them close together. You are frankly grateful for the comfort of darkness. Next to you, Salicera also starts to take off her clothes to get ready for entrance. You glance at where she put them.
“Please roll them together and make sure to fold them properly,” you add. “The Priests will take them and clean them for us. It’s something Master told me.”
“Oh. Sure,” she replies. You cannot be sure where he eyes are going, but finally you get rid of all your clothing and proceed through the layers of curtains towards the second layer.
You fight against the need to cover yourself as the humid sensation of steam hits your skin. You would have expected the inner layer to be full of people at this time of the day, but actually the ringed pool giving way to the inner sanctum is empty, save for two young women.
“You!” Shouts Rubida, standing up amidst a ripple of water and steam. She’s naked save for the bandages covering her right arm. You suppose she would not get those off. “What are you doing out of your bed, Candente?”
“I—”
“You know how she is,” Salicera chuckles, walking into the pool as she shakes her head. “She’s our vanguard in and out of the battlefield. Nice to see you too.”
You take your eyes off Rubida’s generous form and look at the brunette laying in the water besides her. Her eyes are half-closed, her voice a broken whisper, but the thin smile on her pace face tells you everything you needed to know.
That yes, your mission was a success. Even if you can’t see her arms, covered by the water, you notice that, even gaunt as she is, she is <span class="mu-i">alive.</span>
“Argia—” she calls you. “You have come.”
”How could I not?” You shout, rapidly crossing the distance and entering the heated pool to pull Soralisa in an embrace.
>choose two:>What did Astoria and the others say about her chances of full recovery?>This is the same girl who reached out to you through the veil of Night. You must know how it may have felt — it may help you with Sanctions.>Now that the mission is over, how does she feel about it? Can you two start over as friends for the time that you will still spend together? You feel a bit silly asking this in front of the other two, but it’s necessary—>[Write-In] Some other question hits you. Now that all of you four are together, it may be time to ask something important...thanks for playing. I will go die on the bed now. 