Gate of Memoirs/Uneasy Minds

Ever has Man sought purpose in existence; and ever has Man struggled, For even purpose to be futile is the ultimate terror.
Portrait 	Dialogue
Music: "Dead God's Law"	Music: "Dead God's Law"
 	
*Kyria watches with barely restrained frustration as you fend off her brothers.
 	
*Svad rears with a fierce cry, and both Hraban and Harald cease their assaults.
 	
*Kyria: Enough!
*Kyria: , I'm...
*Kyria: I'm disappointed.
*Kyria: I thought you were the one...
*Kyria: You set me on this path, and you walked it with me...until now!
 	
*Kyria: How could someone so irrepressibly radiant fall to this malevolent darkness?
 	
*You feel conflicted at the rage and pain in Kyria's tone.
 	
*After what happened to Suizen and Hakuzo, you don't doubt the power this little eldritch creature possesses...
 	
*But as far as you can tell, she seemed to act purely on instinct alone.
*And it was with that same, almost childlike instinct that she looked to you in her moment of fear.
 	
*The last thing you wanted to happen is another disastrous consequence like Kranus.
 	
*Hadn't the Mad Tinkerer Gazia attempted to siphon a sliver of the Void, and paid the ultimate price?
 	
*Kyria: So you've made your choice.
*Kyria: I see now...
*Kyria: You've been corrupted. Compromised.
 	
*Kyria: Who are you, who dares to walk in the skin of my beloved comrade?
*Kyria: This madness...must be purged!
*Kyria brings her lance to her side, a dangerous glint in her eyes.
 	
*With a shout, Kyria brings her steed charging in a straight path toward Hypaea, intent on a killing blow.
 	
*Blocked by the riders, Giselle turns to you...
 	
*...and you, wild-eyed, reach for your weapon—
*And then, there was silence.
Music: "Creator" 	Music: "Creator"
 	
*The familiar chill returns to your soul as the Queen descends in a mantle of unsettling stillness.
*With but a lazy gesture of her hands, Kyria's knights freeze in time.
 	
*As she peers down from her lofty position, a small smile splits her perfect, porcelain mask.
*S'eljah: What have we here?
 	
*Giselle: ...It's you.
 	
*You look from the Queen to Giselle, and some vague pattern begins to unfold in your understanding.
*After all you've seen of alternate selves and mirror worlds, perhaps they too...
 	
*S'eljah: Tell me, little Hound; you've slipped the leash long enough. 
*S'eljah: Your efforts to "understand" these creatures amount to...what, pray tell?
*S'eljah: Only the senseless violence of the Cycle, and an eternity of suffering.
 	
*S'eljah: Writhing in futility for some fictional glimmer of hope called "purpose."
 	
*Kyria: ... ...
*Kyria: You dare mock my sacred calling, witch?
*Kyria: The Light is everlasting; the Light, is JUSTICE INCARNATE.
 	
*Kyria: Your judgement is nigh!
*Kyria: Hraaah!
 	
*A wall of force impedes the cavalier's forceful plunge, and the Queen's smirk only grows upon that impeccable face.
 	
*S'eljah: "Cavalier." "Hero." "Light-touched warrior."
*S'eljah: Meaningless titles depicting mere specks of inconsequential time.
 	
*S'eljah: Who will remember you when all is gone?
 	
*Kyria: What are you?
 	
*Kyria: What do you want?
 	
*S'eljah: For you to realize, my dear, that this is not a game.
 	
*Kyria: Ugh...!
 	
*Kyria finds herself thrown from her horse as a snaking tendril of black energy entwines itself around Svad and crushes him.
*Out of options, you leap off your steed and bar the Queen's way.
 	
*S'eljah: ... ...
*S'eljah: I thought it might come to this.
*S'eljah: Volatile is the churning mind; how distateful...
 	
*You keep your weapon hand steady even though as your heart hammers up a storm.
 	
*S'eljah: It is a shame you do not see things my way, .
*S'eljah: And to think I had such high hopes for you. That perhaps you would agree this cannot go on.
 	
*S'eljah: Maybe I *should* make an example to illustrate my point.