Gate of Memoirs/A Tight Situation

Baelfyr distracts Zeruiah with Sero-Anya and barely squeezes his way out of the confrontation.
Portrait 	Dialogue
Music: "Dead God's Law"	Music: "Dead God's Law"
 	
*Baelfyr: Gh...!
 	
*Baelfyr finds his strength flagging against the Starsage's furious assault.
*If this was the wrath directed against the invading Voidborn, he would have been eliminated long ago.
*It was only by the fire burning hot within his veins—the very same Faefire granted by the sage herself—that prevented his swift end.
*All it took was a single misstep, however—
 	
*Baelfyr: Ugh!
 	
*Zeruiah: How does it feel, human? To be at the slow, punishing mercy of another?
*Zeruiah: I cannot take back what I have already granted...
*Zeruiah: But only I can stop your ill-directed malevolence from spreading.
 	
*Baelfyr: Then we're not so different, are we?
*Baelfyr: Heh...To die like this...
 	
*Zeruiah: I have no intention of taking your life.
*Zeruiah: Nothing can bring anyone back from Earth Mother's bosom.
*Zeruiah: A death cannot replace another.
 	
*Zeruiah: The most I can do is break your mana flow...
*Zeruiah: That which runs in your veins and keeps the Faefire burning.
*Zeruiah: Do not blame me if you find yourself in agony for the rest of your life.
 	
*Baelfyr watches the Starsage's expression flicker for a brief moment before she raises her glaive to release a powerful incantation.
*Baelfyr: If you still my tongue for good, you won't ever find that girl you seek.
*Baelfyr: The one who resembles the sealed goddess.
 	
*Zeruiah: What...?
*Zeruiah's eyes go wide in shock, and her incantation stops abruptly as she lowers her glaive.
 	
*Though still pinned to the ground, a tiny smirk creeps into the corners of Baelfyr's mouth.
*Baelfyr: Their catastrophic battle *did* tear through much of our lands.
*Baelfyr: It's only natural I've seen them one way or another.
*Baelfyr: I imagine you would be rather anxious about her.
 	
*Zeruiah: What have you done to her?
 	
*Baelfyr: You're already assuming I did something! Am I such a wretched person in your mind, sage?
 	
*Baelfyr: *Surprisingly* enough, nothing. I only saw her wandering around here.
*Baelfyr: Where she's going is the least of my concerns...
*Baelfyr: But since you've tailed me here, you would know that there are worse things than bandits...
*Baelfyr's gaze flickers over to the dead Naga.
 	
*Zeruiah: ... ...!
 	
*Baelfyr takes advantage of her momentary distraction to counter her glaive with his blade.
*In one rapid lunge, he swings around and breaks off a part of the sage's antler, causing her to recoil from the impact.
 	
*Zeruiah: Baelfyr...
 	
*Baelfyr: Choose wisely, sage.
*Baelfyr: If you've satisfied your appetite for violence, we can part ways and never cross each other again.
*Baelfyr: But if you choose to hunt me down...
 	
*Baelfyr: I wonder, what will become of a defenseless little girl in a land crawling with Naga?
 	
*Baelfyr dips his head in mock respect, adjusts his coat, and hobbles off onto the main road.
*Zeruiah allows the duplicitous human to leave, but doesn't take her eyes off his retreating back.
*As soon as he leaves her sight, she recalls her troubling dream of the girl.
Portrait 	Dialogue
Music: "Daydream"	Music: "Daydream"
 	
*Sero-Anya: ... ... ...
 	
*Zeruiah: J...Juno?
*Zeruiah: This darkness...Just like the other one...
*Zeruiah: Ensa-Taya...
 	
*Black energy coalesces around the small girl before radiating outward in thrashing tendrils that are all too painfully familiar.
 	
*Zeruiah: Ngh!
*Zeruiah: Why...Why do you keep appearing to me?
*Zeruiah: Is there something you wish to say?
 	
*Zeruiah: Who are you...?
Portrait	Dialogue
 	
*With a weary sigh, Zeruiah plunges her glaive into the ground, and looks into the distance toward the east.
 	
*Zeruiah: Juno...What are you trying to tell me?
*She retrieves a small silver necklace from a pouch, and holds it close to her heart.
*Zeruiah: Your kind baffles me, Eirwen.
*Zeruiah: Tell me...what should I do?