Gate of Memoirs/Skeletons in the Closet

Adriesta learns about Gabriela's storied past...and realizes that in Fuindor, time and magic flow strangely...
Portrait 	Dialogue
Music: "Seabed Song"	Music: "Seabed Song"
 	
*???: Mommy...where are you...?
 	
*Adriesta: No... Please, don't take him away...
*Adriesta: No! Please! Not my child! Please!
*Adriesta: Please...
 	
*Gabriela: Good morning, Adriesta. How are you feeling?
 	
*Adriesta: Ugh. I've felt better, but thanks.
 	
*Gabriela: Good. We have a long way to go.
 	
*Adriesta: You know where we're headed?
 	
*Gabriela: In a sense. Ever since we defeated Kielazar, I've had this...feeling that someone is looking out for us.
 	
*Adriesta: Someone? Who?
 	
*Gabriela: I don't know. It's a very subtle thing, almost otherworldly. But our destination is clear, at least for now.
 	
*Gabriela: We need to go to the center of this accursed island. Something is waiting for us there.
 	
*Adriesta: Gabriela... I've been meaning to ask...
 	
*Gabriela: Mm?
 	
*Adriesta: How did you know Kielazar?
 	
*Adriesta: I'm sorry, it must be terribly personal.
 	
*Gabriela: No... It's all right. 
*Gabriela: Honor demands that I give you an answer, and honor demands that it be the truth.
 	
*Gabriela: But... *Sigh* Very well. Before I died, I ruled a city...
 	
*P-Please...mercy...
 	
*Gabriela: A toast, then! To wealth, to vice, and to honor!
*Gabriela: And as for those who besmirch the hospitality of our coven, such as Lord Vaard here...
 	
*Gabriela: A man that we have made prosperous despite this famine, yet has seen fit to bring foul blades from the Inquisition in my presence...
 	
*Y-You gave me n-no choice...monster!
 	
*Gabriela: Silence! Bah. I tire of your pitiful whining. Toss him and his son to the ghouls. Tell them to make their meal last.
 	
*N-Nooooo! Help me! Someone help meeeee!
*As you will, mistress. However, a great one has requested for your presence.
 	
*Gabriela: Hmph. Very well.
 	
*Gabriela: Ladies and gentlemen, enjoy! And remember who has fed you with plenty in these lean times!
 	
*Gabriela: Shut the door, then leave me.
 	
*As you will, mistress.
 	
*Gabriela: I, Gabriela, have arrived in honor of our pact.
 	
*???: Excellent. You do well to not keep me waiting, vampire.
 	
*Gabriela: Overlords, a pleasure as always.
 	
*Overlords: Lies, lies, lies! You dance around your oaths so nicely. However, that's quite enough. To business.
*Overlords: My kin have unleashed a Death March upon the land, and a delightful conjunction of events is about to happen where you and I benefit.
 	
*Gabriela: How so?
 	
*Overlords: Your elders are demanding that you pick an apprentice, yet you cannot find a soul strong enough to bear your lineage's might.
*Overlords: Fortunately for you, a mortal man in Rehdoon city is your perfect candidate.
 	
*Gabriela: Tsch. How absurd.And if I were to refuse?
 	
*Overlords: I expected no less from you, haha! A pity, then, that some reckless souls within the Inquisition are knocking at my door.
*Overlords: It seems that they are getting desperate in their quest for justice. A few dreams here and there, and your life would be rather interesting.
*Overlords: By the way, how was dinner? Exciting, I trust?
 	
*Gabriela: Hardly. It seems I am at a disadvantage. Your price then, Overlord?
 	
*Overlords: Mmmmmmm. Be at the eastern quarter of Rehdoon city in seven days, and I will consider our transaction fully paid.
*Overlords: Till then!
 	
*Gabriela: One day, you and your kin will die. And I will be there to laugh my heart out.
 	
*Adriesta: The siege of Rehdoon city... Was over sixty years ago! H-How?!
 	
*Gabriela: Sit down, child. It's a lot to take in, I know.
*Gabriela: But pardon me for a few minutes, I'll be right back. We've attracted some attention, it seems.
 	
*Adriesta: How...is it possible?