Gate of Memoirs/West Hall: Rotunda - End

Renatus and Nimrah manages to destroy the tome and in the process, Renatus finds the greatest "artifact" any man could have.
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Music: "Twilight Gleam"	Music: "Twilight Gleam"
 	
*The monstrous form of the scholar collapses in a echoing wail, lost in the cacophony of all the other tormented spirits.
 	
*Renatus: By the way...About the mirror in your study? Know why your mind-tricks didn't work on me?
*Renatus: 'Cause I'm not like the rest. You don't get to order me around, old man.
*Renatus: Not even with all the money in the world.
 	
*Renatus: No one tells me how to live my life!
 	
*At long last, the hundreds of souls trapped in here to feed the Scholar's black essence are finally freed from their supernatural prison.
*The tomb begins to crumble, having lost its arcane support.
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*What it should have been long ago—debris and dust.
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Music: "Lost Palace"	Music: "Lost Palace"
 	
*Light filters in through the collapsed top.
*Renatus carefully retrieves the Tome of Desire from its place on the floor,
*but it, too, crumbles to ash like its resting place.
 	
*Renatus: Oh boy. There goes my bounty.
 	
*Renatus: Wait...
 	
*Renatus checks every nook and cranny for that sultry, sassy spirit who had accompanied him for the past few days.
*Who, despite only wanting to use him to escape, inadvertently became a stalwart and companionable ally.
*Was it only a partnership of convenience?
*Had it cost Nimrah her life in the end?
 	
*Renatus: So she's gone, too.
*Renatus: I don't know if this counts as "freeing" you, Nimrah...
*Renatus: But at least you don't have to be in a stuffy tomb with your horrible master anymore.
*Renatus: I won't forget you, Nimrah. It was nice knowing you.
 	
*Familiar Voice: Aww, that's so sweet.
 	
*Renatus: WARGH!
 	
*Nimrah: Ahaha! You are really bad with jumpscares, you know that?
*Nimrah: You've survived the curse of the tome, a mirror-maze of interdimensional horror, and defeated my monstrous former master...
*Nimrah: ...but your heart jumps into your throat at a single startle!
 	
*Renatus: Guh...
*Renatus: I take back what I said about how it was nice knowing you...
*Renatus: You're nasty.
 	
*Nimrah: Spoilsport.
 	
*Nimrah: In all honesty, though.
*Nimrah: Thank you for liberating me, seeker.
*Nimrah: It's been...so long, since I last saw the sun.
*Nimrah: And in doing so, you've freed the hundreds of others trapped in here for ages.
 	
*Renatus: All in a day's work...
 	
*Renatus: ...Am I speaking to a ghost? Are you really still here?
 	
*Nimrah: Why don't you find out?
 	
*Nimrah: ...?!
*Nimrah: Hey, your hug—It's suffocating me!
 	
*Renatus: S-Sorry!
 	
*Nimrah: You sure are cuddly, seeker.
 	
*Nimrah: But...it's nice to know someone cares.
 	
*The two spend a moment in companionable silence.
 	
*Renatus: So, what will you do now?
 	
*Nimrah: To be honest? I'm not sure...
*Nimrah: I've never seen the world outside of Master's residence.
 	
*Nimrah: Even though I'm freed, I don't know how far I can go, or what I need to survive.
*Nimrah: In a way, I'm just starting to learn about myself.
 	
*Renatus: Hmm...
*Renatus: I think I've got just the thing for you.
*Renatus: So, a few weeks' travel east of the empire, there's this abandoned mage tower whose owner specialized in conjuration...
 	
*Renatus: ...And guess who has the maps?
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*A long time ago, a scholar sought the ultimate secret to destiny...
*...but he failed to remember that, though Man is rife with greed...
*...Hope still exists.
*And for some, that hope is channeled by willpower.