Gate of Memoirs/Return

To be of one mind and one purpose, and to learn from those before you.
Portrait	Dialogue
 	
*"How far I've travelled to seek the eldritch truth."
*"How many others I've seen in the interminable Void that once birthed me."
*"Each of us a mere sliver of a cosmic whole."
*"The churning tide; the ravenous ravager; the howling gale of change."
*"Worlds live and die. As do men. As do gods."
*"We too shall one day succumb to nothingness, only to return again and again."
*"Life everlasting in Death, and Death from which arises Life. That is the Cycle."
 	
*"Of all I remember them. The ones called the Eternal Light."
*"A singular being split not just once, but twice—and in the end had returned to being whole."
 	
*"What was it like to be whole, and perfect?"
*"To understand fully you are one and the same?"
*"As a whisper once uttered in a bygone time: be it from the unknown past, or the unknown future?"
Portrait 	Dialogue
Music: "Snowy Winds"	Music: "Snowy Winds"
 	
*—Present time.
*The tear in the space Giselle left behind shimmers, a scar in cosmic fabric.
*Entities like herself—like the Void's spawn, even—too often leave clean exits,
*to the detriment of those wishing to track their otherworldly opponents.
*Like those of the Summoner's Hall, as Kranus came to know.
*The fact that this rift remains, however, is testament to the Hound's final gambit.
*But whether intentional or a mere coincidence, perhaps only Fate could tell.
 	
*Kranus: For you, at least, I am grateful.
*Kranus: And now, the curtain falls...
Portrait 	Dialogue
Music: "Daydream"	Music: "Daydream"
 	
*The light subsides enough for you to see, and you find yourself at a calmer shoreline.
*It reminds you of Eyinhel's returned sun, and Aoife's necklace in your pocket seems to agree.
*Perhaps some things are not so different in every world.
 	
*The being makes no sound or movement, and it is Inara who speaks first.
 	
*Inara: But...But how can you be?
*Inara: Tsovinar was...destroyed...
*Inara: The core inside me is all that remains. All that is left to learn from her mistakes.
 	
*Eternal Light: You sense her, do you not?
*Eternal Light: With us: one, and at peace. No longer to suffer.
*Eternal Light: For ours is the Light.
*Eternal Light: Hark! She speaks.
 	
*Inara: You are here?
 	
*Tsovinar's Spirit: ...Yes.
 	
*Inara: The path you took terminated in your death. One driven by rage and grief.
*Inara: ...The human emotions you so scorned.
 	
*Inara: Was it worth it, in the end?
 	
*Tsovinar's Spirit: ...I sense your skepticism. I would have shared in your derision.
*Tsovinar's Spirit: But I do not regret it.
 	
*Inara: ... ...
 	
*Tsovinar's Spirit: Cherish it. You are right to be wary.
*Tsovinar's Spirit: Trust our memory, and no other.
*Tsovinar's Spirit: Slay all who dare stand defiant before you...
*Tsovinar's Spirit: You are whole, now. You are perfect...
Portrait 	Dialogue
 	
*Inara: ...We've returned...
*Inara: Was it her doing?
 	
*You look around and see time frozen in a snapshot back in the cavern.
*There is the Queen, and Giselle unconscious before her—and that enormous crystalline cocoon, now dangerously darkened.
 	
*What is more interesting is the look on the Queen's face.
*Some part of you, however, is smug to see her caught off-guard.
 	
*But it is then that her familiar, unsettling cadence whispers into your ear.
Music: "Dead God's Law"	Music: "Dead God's Law"
 	
*S'eljah: How clever did you think you were...? A moment sooner and it would have been over.
*The moment breaks, but before your senses catch up you are already running for your friend.
*Giselle is unresponsive, and you feel only a minuscule hint of life's breath from her leaden body.
 	
*S'eljah: Do not presume me so heartless to deny you one last glimpse.
 	
*S'eljah: Though I cannot say the same for that one over there.
*S'eljah: It displeases me that *something* has deigned fit to intrude the space I made for you both.
 	
*Inara: What pompous words for a cornered rat.
*Inara: Should I thank you for showing me the way, instead?
*Inara: Celebrate my revelation with your blood?
 	
*You did not expect the intensity of Inara's ire; perhaps Tsovinar—that violent, destructive goddess of eld—would always live on through her.
*No goddess willingly suffers another in her domain, after all.
*A wild bolt—the first in this clash—misses the Queen, but the resulting crack in the cocoon behind her finally produces a reaction of annoyance.
 	
*S'eljah: Tch...!