Gate of Memoirs/Compromise

Sero-Anya comes to a mutual understanding with Ensa-Taya, just in time to meet the Naga in battle.
Portrait 	Dialogue
Music: "To Comrades"	Music: "To Comrades"
 	
*Every sound and breath seems amplified tenfold here—an echo chamber for this momentous duel.
*Saskya's dark doppelgangers still manage to stand in spite of their grievous injuries.
 	
*Shadow of Saskya: Rrrghh...No!
*Shadow of Saskya: We—I will NOT fall here.
 	
*Shadow of Saskya: I am the ONLY ONE WORTHY!
*Shadow of Saskya: NO ONE CAN DEFEAT ME!
 	
*Saskya: ... ...
 	
*Saskya: You've already lost, thinking that way.
 	
*Saskya evades her doppelganger's frenzied blows, using the momentum to whip around and deliver a single, powerful strike to her neck.
*The dark aspect's face contorts as agony, disbelief, and bewilderment chase each other across her ashen face.
*The two figures coalesce into one and begin to disintegrate, leaving behind their aura of darkness.
*As Saskya lowers the body to the ground, the aura shifts and gradually begins to envelop her.
 	
*Saskya: ... ...
*Saskya: ...This time, it'll be different.
Portrait 	Dialogue
Music: "Lost Ground"	Music: "Lost Ground"
 	
*Sero-Anya: Ahh...
 	
*Sometime during Saskya's battle, Sero-Anya had slipped into a strange space, like that of a waking dream.
*The dueling dance between the warrior monk and her darkest desires mirrored the struggle within herself.
*Perhaps the underworld had brought forth all of the goddess-girl's deepest hopes and fears...
 	
*or had the Voidbringer merely waited for the perfect time to finally emerge?
*Lady in Purple: ... ...
 	
*Sero-Anya: Ensa-Taya...
*Sero-Anya: Finally...We meet at last...
 	
*Ensa-Taya: Foolish girl.
*Ensa-Taya: Consume, or be consumed. That is the law of the Void.
*Ensa-Taya: If you do not understand even such a simple concept, then perish and disappear.
 	
*Sero-Anya: What terror and savagery you embodied...
*Sero-Anya: Yet your—our other half opened her arms to you.
*Sero-Anya: She knew we were one. We couldn't stay apart for long.
*Sero-Anya: The Ravaging Void twisted you into something despicable, and still she forgave you.
 	
*Sero-Anya: ...And so will I.
 	
*Sero-Anya reaches out toward her former self, whose face was still frozen in barely concealed mistrust.
 	
*Ensa-Taya: Forgiveness? I have no need of your pity.
 	
*Ensa-Taya: Now begone, lest I wrest control of you from that sickening other half of mine!
 	
*Sero-Anya: No.
*Sero-Anya: You don't understand...She needs you!
*Sero-Anya: *We* need you.
 	
*Sero-Anya: Ensa...You won't disappear. No one will.
*Sero-Anya: You're always with me—with us. We'll return this world to its proper balance, together.
 	
*Sero-Anya: We can't let those Naga take over. Right?
 	
*Ensa-Taya: Tch...
*Ensa-Taya: With every renewal of our soul, ambition flickers and dies.
*Ensa-Taya: Mmm...but the Naga do irritate me a great deal, yes.
 	
*Ensa-Taya: I suppose I can accept that...for now.
*Ensa-Taya: Hurry up. Don't keep them waiting; they think you're dead.
 	
*Sero-Anya: Huh?
Portrait 	Dialogue
 	
*Sero-Anya jerks out of her vision, a bruised Tevarius hovering worriedly over her.
*Saskya is leaning against the wall a small distance away, eyes closed in meditation.
Music: "Snow Poem" 	Music: "Snow Poem"
 	
*Tevarius: Sero! You scared me! Are you all right?
 	
*Sero-Anya: I saw you fall, then everything was a blur...and I passed out, I think.
*Sero-Anya: Saskya? What happened?
 	
*As the warrior monk comes into view, a hint of red flashes across her amber eyes, but it soon returns to its normal warmth.
 	
*Saskya: ...I've subdued her. That dark aspect of mine.
 	
*Saskya: I must apologize for her sudden assault...
 	
*Saskya: I underestimated the sway she had over my old self...but I knew that what she wanted was eternal conflict.
 	
*Saskya: I'd never win that way.
 	
*Tevarius: So you chose...acceptance.
 	
*Saskya: Years of watching so many lost souls come down here with regrets has given me plenty of time to think.
*Saskya: But it didn't cross my mind to take action. Not yet, I kept telling myself.
*Saskya: Until you came along...and I knew in that instant, that running away would solve nothing.
 	
*Saskya: It seems that you too have made peace somehow, little one.
*Saskya: I feel that something's changed inside of you. I can only hope you are happy with it.
 	
*Sero-Anya: ...Mhmm.
 	
*Tevarius: ...I'm not really sure what's happening, but I'm glad you're both okay.
 	
*Tevarius: At any rate, are we done here? This place is rather...uninviting.
 	
*Saskya: What do you wish to do now, druk?
*Saskya: I can return you to the surface, where you will be safe as long as you stay within the Plateaus...
*Saskya: But I fear the Naga won't simply try and wait out my Lady's defenses.
*Saskya: I'll meet them head on. They won't expect this.
 	
*Sero-Anya: Saskya! I'll go too!
 	
*Tevarius: Sero?!
 	
*Sero-Anya: The Queen Mother is right. I'll make my own amends!
*Sero-Anya: I won't shy away any longer. We have to drive them back.
Music: "Strike! Break!"	Music: "Strike! Break!"
 	
*A sudden blast shakes the caverns, sending a distant howl of alien language echoing to this chamber.
*Spirits scatter in all directions as the party braces themselves for what is to come.
 	
*Tevarius: ...?!
 	
*Sero-Anya: They're already here.
 	
*Saskya: ... ...
 	
*Saskya: Hmph. So they've brought the fight to us instead.
Portrait	Dialogue
 	
*Saskya: Good! I could use a *challenge*.