Gate of Memoirs/Without Its Fears

An spirit of knowledge attempts to understand a conundrum - itself.
Portrait 	Dialogue
Music: "The Tower"	Music: "The Tower"
 	
*Ilm: Hm. This is unexpected. Interesting.
 	
*Sorcerer: Aha! I've succeeded! Now, spirit, I command yo--
 	
*Ilm: You command nothing, sorcerer. This is a drea--
*Ilm: Ah. Pain.
 	
*Sorcerer: There! I've burned your seal in this sacred flame! Now you'll obey me!
 	
*Ilm: This is not real. Yet it is real. An oddity.
 	
*Sorcerer: Listen to me, spirit! I command--
 	
*Ilm: You wish wealth. Love. Power. Intimacy.
*Ilm: You ask me to bring you gold. To whisper things in the ears of the ones who hold your affections.
*Ilm: I will no--
 	
*Adriesta: Help me, Ilm. Please.
 	
*Ilm: Adriesta?
 	
*Gabriela: You can make this all end, Ilm. With just one word.
 	
*Ilm: No! This is false.
 	
*Faelan: Strange water thing? A...Are you there?
 	
*Ilm: Faelan?
 	
*Faelan: I'm cold, and I c-can't see anything. P-Please.
 	
*Ilm: No. N-No. No! This is not true.
 	
*Adriesta: Please, help us.
 	
*Gabriela: Please help us.
 	
*Faelan: Please help me go home.
 	
*Ilm: No. How can this be true? This cannot be--
 	
*Faelan: Please, strange water thing. It really hurts...and I can't see anything...
 	
*Ilm: I must fight free of this illusion. I have to save them. I have to save them!
*Ilm: Lasu min! LASU MIN! <Let me out! LET ME OUT!>
 	
*Luina: Oooh, no you don't.
 	
*Zelion: So even the dreamless dream of impotence.
 	
*Luina: Indeed, master. A delicious treat, no?