Gate of Memoirs/An Anomalous Color

It was just a color out of space--a frightful, gestating entity from unformed realms.
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Music: "Source Hall"	Music: "Source Hall"
 	
*Inara: Hah. You've got some nerve...
*Inara: I am not who she was. I will become who she can never be.
 	
*Inara: And in her eternal lie, even death may die.
*Inara: Vishap, destroy!
 	
*S'eljah: ...?!
 	
*Inara breaks free from the Queen's grasp over stasis and transforms Vishap into living liquid.
*The serpent weaves his immaterial body around the great mineral cocoon, and pierces the thick carapace with his crushing maw.
*There is a single moment of silence before a spiderweb of fissures spreads across its luminous surface—
Portrait 	Dialogue
Music: "Transcendence"	Music: "Transcendence"
 	
*And from that cavernous opening it spilled forth: a shifting, shambling terror of sickening shape.
*A premature amalgamation of half-formed entities and shards of cryptic colors, scintillating in such hues as no mortal can describe.
*The creature gurgles, its faculties for speech buried beneath shuddering, primal instincts—
*And again its form split, expanding against Vishap's death grip.
 	
*Inara: Impossible...
 	
*A rush of hollow, echoing sound, and Vishap collapses into spray.
*The inchoate flesh writhes forth, as if to assess the danger of its surroundings, before settling its thousand-eyed stare on Inara.
 	
*Not even the Queen in Cobalt could contain the crack of shock in her porcelain mask.
 	
*Her face betrayed no small amount of disappointment and disgust over this unexpected turn of events.
 	
*"As I recalled Vishap to my side, a multitude of emotions tore at me from within."
*"Faced with such an insurmountable terror, as of some remembered instinct to kill...or be killed..."
*"What could I do, faced with that interminable Void—"
Portrait	Dialogue
 	
*"But to succumb to that most quintessential of natural laws?"