>>25027364https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkyoG4S-R6I"N-NOT INTENTIONALLY!" you snap to her with an expression ridden with anxiety. "I-It was fate! Th-The lore did it! If anyone's the victim here, it's me, a victim of CHANCE!"
Serena releases a strained sigh, one hand tightly tugging your arm down the hall, the other pinching the beak of her mask as she computes the predicament. "As I figured... One step forward and two steps back for the ever-gallant butterfingers. What -ever- am I going to do with you?"
"I sometimes wonder that myself.."
"Goodness.." she mutters under her breath, subtly loosening her grip on you. "The fabled emanation that has been acting as your undying barrier -all this time-, the guard Lysandre sought to covet.. is in actuality gathering its fuel by depleting the resources, terrain, and /inhabitants/ of a distant, parallel realm—a perpetual act you lack complete control of, an act that drove a jaded man to abandon his shriveling home and travel the worldlines on a headhunt for the cause to the effect. And when he finally tracks you down he, for lack of better word, /coerces/ you to rectify the pandemic. Did I get all of that?"
"W-Well yeah, when you put it like THAT it sounds bad!"
