Gate of Memoirs/Memory to Silence

Only ashes remain in neverending cold.
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Music: "Nothingness"	Music: "Nothingness"
 	
*With the aid of your unlikely allies, Ascha is forced into a defensive stance.
*Her ire only grows with each passing moment, siphoning this world's very essence to channel her rage.
 	
*Ascha: G͞r̷rr...Grr͡r͝aaah̀h.̷....!
 	
*You fear to think of a fate like Suizen's or the nameless rancher's.
*But before Ascha can unleash another blazing burst, the Queen intervenes.
*Wounded by the earlier battle, Ascha's crashes to the floor this time, seized by the same phantom bonds.
 	
*The Devourer thrashes, snarling in discordant tones, as the Queen looks on imperiously.
 	
*There is a certain glint in the Queen's eye that makes you wary.
 	
*And sure enough, Kranus seems to arrive at the same conclusion.
*Kranus: You won't destroy her. Of course.
 	
*The Queen smirks, and places a finger at her lip.
Music: "A God" 	Music: "A God"
 	
*S'eljah: Go ahead. Be the rash little Voidling I know you to be, and vanquish this "cosmic threat."
*S'eljah: Better to snuff out an adolescent creature than a mature and far more dangerous one.
*S'eljah: That's what you must think. No?
 	
*S'eljah: After all that has already been siphoned into her endless maw...
*S'eljah: This little world and its twin beyond the Veil is a small price to pay.
 	
*Kranus: ...!
 	
*Your heart sinks at the revelation.
*This world—Inara's, and Tsovinar's—already shares a parasitic fate with Ascha.
*Though not yet condemned to dust like Suizen's, it was a wholly different matter to fuel a growing eldritch fire.
*Fuel that serves only to ignite limitless desire, then crumble to ash and dust.
*And in time, after Ascha, there will be nothing left.
*Absolute nonexistence, even beyond the Veil.
*The only way to prevail, then, is...
 	
*Kranus: ...What do you want?
 	
*S'eljah: I'll not mince words. Ascha is tainted.
*S'eljah: You know as well as I do that left unchecked, neither of us can hope to stop her.
*S'eljah: But not .
 	
*The Queen turns to you, a knowing smirk splitting her mask.
 	
*S'eljah: You remember, do you not?
*S'eljah: That you have the power to alter fates and destinies simply by virtue of *existing*.
 	
*You think back to every instance you've found yourself experiencing other worlds through Noel's inventions.
*Were you merely observing, or had there been a time and a place...where the outcome was different?
*And if Kyria is right, then the Summoner that had gone before you—whose memory you swear is almost like your own—
*Are they but shadows of another time?
 	
*Kranus: Ridiculous. You think will champion so insane a cause?
*Kranus: After all they have done to safeguard these worlds?
 	
*S'eljah: Do not think to speak for them, Voidling.
*S'eljah: I desire not a whit of your pithy sentiments.
 	
*There is a tense silence, then a quiet utterance.
 	
*Kranus: I will see to it that you are *destroyed*. No matter the cost.
 	
*You hear Ascha snarl again as she strains against her bonds, pure fury in her eyes.
 	
*S'eljah: Quickly, my dear...
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*S'eljah: ...Choose.