Gate of Memoirs/Proving

Some scars remain forever in flesh and in soul.
Portrait 	Dialogue
Music: "Source Hall" 	Music: "Source Hall"
 	
*—The site of slaughter.
 	
*Phaedra: ...There you are.
 	
*Phaedra takes out the emblem, running her fingers once more over the grooves of her house sigil.
*Even bereft of sight, Phaedra's memories brought back a sense of familiarity in Angahl's aura, 
*and it was against a dark, shuddering silhouette that she espied her erstwhile bodyguard.
 	
*Phaedra: It's you, isn't it?
*Phaedra: Angahl...
 	
*Angahl: ... ...
*Angahl: My...lady.
*Angahl: Please... Leave...
 	
*The giant raised his head, revealing black, knotted branches slowly encircling his neck.
*The severely disfigured tree behind him was burned to its core, leaving it a permanently ailing shell of its former self.
*A dark stream of energy bleeds forth from the ashen bark, its Fae voice warped and twisted in fury.
*Enraged Elemental: How many moons has it been since the foul feet of men desecrated our home?
*Enraged Elemental: How many more have died in pain and sorrow, and still you dare enter?
 	
*Phaedra: ...!
*Phaedra: You're the spirits of this forest, aren't you?
*Phaedra: I...I heard voices when I first awoke.
 	
*Enraged Elemental: You will find no clemency from me.
*Enraged Elemental: My kin are fools for letting you trample our woods when you should have burned for your sins.
 	
*Angahl collapses to a knee as the elemental torments him anew.
 	
*Enraged Elemental: You're all corrupted... From the man who slew an innocent dryad to the cowards hacking down every last Fae out of 'fear'...
*Enraged Elemental: You're the reason the tainted earth continues to linger... 
*Enraged Elemental: 'Tis naught but human sin, after all... And I will make you pay for it.
 	
*Angahl: Graahh!
 	
*Phaedra: STOP!
 	
*A burst of light from Phaedra's outstretched hand scatters part of the dark mist, and the elemental draws back with seething hatred.
*Enraged Elemental: Try that again, human, and you won't even have a body to mourn.
Music: "Twilight Gleam"	Music: "Twilight Gleam"
 	
*Phaedra: None of this is our fault!
*Phaedra: We are victims too. Victims of our own people.
*Phaedra: That wild-eyed wolf of a man started this!
 	
*Enraged Elemental: You're ALL complicit!
*Enraged Elemental: Ever has it been the way of humans to be self-absorbed creatures!
*Enraged Elemental: What would you know of kinship?!
 	
*Phaedra: Then let me prove it to you that we have no quarrel with you and yours.
*Phaedra: We are NOT the targets of your ire.
*Phaedra: We'll cleanse this corruption ourselves.
 	
*Enraged Elemental: Hah! As if it could be that simple. Your very existence IS a corruption.
*Enraged Elemental: I will purge you myself, as your kind once did to mine!
*Though tormented by the malice of the enraged elemental, Angahl struggles ferociously against his bonds.
 	
*Angahl: NO! 
*Angahl: I will not...be slave...to your suffering...!
 	
*Phaedra: Hang in there, Angahl!
*Phaedra: I'll save you this time!