Gate of Memoirs/The End of Innocence

The wolf crosses a point of no return.
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Music: "Dark Pursuit"	Music: "Dark Pursuit"
 	
*Leopold: Ngh...
*Leopold: Listen to me, Baelfyr.
*Leopold: The Vale will not acquiesce to the tearful pleas of a mere human.
 	
*Leopold: No... Only their own kin. Their own blood.
*Leopold: I can only hope you understand what you are doing.
 	
*Baelfyr: ...Who are you, old man?
*Baelfyr: A specter of delusion, or phantom driven mad?
 	
*Baelfyr: Tell me!
 	
*Leopold: ... ...
*Leopold: I am Leopold Heinrich Auswald...
*Leopold: ...Last patriarch of House Auswald.
*Leopold: Do not forget us.
 	
*Leopold's spirit unravels into smoke, a distant howl blending into the biting winds outside.
 	
*Baelfyr: ... ...
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*Baelfyr: "I will make sure your legacy lives on, grandsire."
*Baelfyr: "My mission...is true. My purpose, unwavering."
*Baelfyr: "Now, there is but one thing left to do. However difficult."
Music: "Dark Pursuit"	Music: "Dark Pursuit"
 	
*Sidonie: ...Bael?
 	
*Sidonie: You're up early. I heard a loud noise...
 	
*Baelfyr: Probably a stray Voidborn.
*Baelfyr: How's your leg?
 	
*Sidonie: The antivenom helped, but for some reason the gross black blood won't go away.
 	
*Baelfyr: ...I see.
*Baelfyr: Hopefully it gets better.
 	
*Sidonie: Yeah.
 	
*Sidonie: ...Hey, Bael? Are you okay?
 	
*Baelfyr: Oh, I've just had a hard time sleeping.
*Baelfyr: Don't worry yourself.
 	
*Baelfyr: Let's carry on. Can you walk?
*Baelfyr: We should try to get as close as we can to the abandoned outpost.
*Baelfyr: No other human, save for one "Eirwen", has ever made it into the Vale since...
*Baelfyr: Maybe you'll catch the eye of a lone Fae or something. You do look the part.
 	
*Baelfyr: And then they might just let us in. I do wonder...
 	
*Sidonie: ... ...
*Something quite indescribable in Baelfyr's eyes catches the light just so,
*and Sidonie sees the flicker of phantom fire, or the telltale glint of a wicked dagger in those wolfish eyes.
*Sidonie: (...Just a trick of the light?)
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*"How lonely the road indeed;"
*"I would never admit just how much she really meant to me."
*"And I would never behold her impish smile ever again..."
*"Not even in the dreams I no longer had."
*"So begins my vengeance—"
*"A baleful howl for the enemies of my House."
*"The wolves...are at the door."