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Where? What? Are you not dead? Has everything failed? Think positive! Where are you? Underwater, you think. What are you? You are a giant snake.
Just a truly unimaginably gigantic snake. The <span class="mu-s"><span class="mu-r">WYRM's</span></span> smaller self. The monster summoned by the Crown. You are back, and time is passing. It's passing? Are you... are you free, then? Alive?
Only for a minute. You can feel it, a mile or two off, your tail cold and stiffening.
Only for a minute. But it's more time than you expected. By God, you'll make the most of it, by God, by God. The ocean's vast, but you are vaster— you're dying fast, but you move faster— and with titanic might you surge straight up. Water crashes past you. Bubbles cloud your vision. Up and up and up until, in a shower of seafoam, your head erupts from the ocean's surface.
The sky is blue. The sun is high in it. White gulls squawk-squawk-squawk and flee you. You are warm, the water shines, the wind skates past you. You are back. As you promised, you are back, and you will never leave again.
Why would you? It's a beautiful day.
>[END QUEST]
>[...?]
This concludes the main story of Drowned Quest Redux. Thank you for reading! We're not done yet, though: stay tuned tomorrow for the beginning of the !noninteractive! epilogue, which should run for 4 - 8 more updates (depends on how much I can get done in a sitting).
