>>5378164"Prove to me! Prove to me that she's not your mother!" Farnese tears up as she offers Serpico a stronger fire source, wanting to prove his innocence once and for all.
"Farnese-"
"You can do it, can't you? You don't have a woman to call yours! So swear it once more to me! I am your mistress! Only I, now and forever..."
Putting his mistress' needs over his, he slowly approached the stake with confidence to burn all the heretics, burning the only remaining evidence of his true origins while asserting to Farnese of his innocence.
"...Now you know why I can't tell her." Serpico says as his memories disappear from your vision. "We have left a labyrinth we never dreamed of escaping, and now we've reached the ocean that marks the halfway point of our journey. Be it snow or sand... our footprints continue along..."
How could he reveal the truth, knowing that Farnese would instantly connect the dots and deem herself guilty of killing her brother's mother?
"Maybe the wind of the sylphs is guiding me to my freedom with these thoughts... Though I wonder what it means to truly be free... Is it to pass my burdens to someone else, or to feign control over the ones who give you order. Unless being free to die is considered a form of opposition..."
>To be free is to do whatever you wish to.>Freedom is relative, and many times illusive. Some burdens are ours to carry alone.>We can't be free until we've fulfilled our missions. Though whatever our mission is predates our own conception.>We are slaves of our own minds and needs. It's sad, but it reflects our state of being.>Write-in. 