Before the Endless Dream Ends/Story/Promise

(TBA)

## Script

* **Last updated:** 12 November 2023

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**The dark cliff, the dark moon.**
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**I carefully climbed up until a green vine came into my view.**
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**The vine was wobbly. If I grabbed it, I may be able to climb higher and see the road beneath me, or my weight may snap it and I’d fall into a bottomless pit.**
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**"Have you ever observed ants?"**
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**Who was that?**
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**"Draw a circle around the ants with a stick, and they'll be trapped inside it. Ants that can't find an exit will probably run around in the circle until they’re exhausted.”**
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**"If you put a stick in the circle, do you think it'd climb out?"**
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**The vine dangled. It might break off any minute.**
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**💬**Grab it**💬**Bypass it**💬**Do nothing< Each choice will continue story, but will lead to different dialogue. >
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**Grab it, and become a lab rat? At least that would beat wandering aimlessly in the darkness.**
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**Maybe it'd turn out fine.**
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**The moment I grabbed it, it broke off as expected, and dragged me into the bottomless pit.**
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**Would grabbing it make a difference? I'm not that gullible.**
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**I tried to avoid it and felt my way along the dark cliff, but without a footing, I slipped and fell into the bottomless pit.**
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**I sat in place. There was no sight to see, but my tense body relaxed nonetheless.**
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**The next moment, the dark cliff crumbled. The ending was clearly predetermined.**
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Luna Kindred**Is this the Ether Anchor? It looks very plain.**
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Luna Kindred**There's no need to be evasive. I know the gifts of fate have been secretly priced.**
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Luna Kindred**Say it. What do you want me to do?**
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Luna Kindred**"Opens at 11:30 every day and doesn't have a regular closing time. Serves snacks and cocktails.”**
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Luna Kindred**If only we could open a restaurant together.**
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Luna Kindred**Can you cook? I've always wanted to try the black truffle chocolate grilled steak you talked about.**
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Luna Kindred**As for me, I can entertain the guests, and my sister will often help us out. We can call all our friends over after closing on weekends and make ginormous cotton candies together.**
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Luna Kindred**…**
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Luna Kindred**Those two in the eatery look so close. It makes me a bit reluctant to interrupt their conversation.**
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**After a while, she sighed softly, the wind chimes on the door jingled.**
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Luna Kindred**Hi. Can I order now?**
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**Unfamiliar scenes flooded into the brain, overloading neurons.**
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**But was this the time to stop?**
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**💬**Continue< The story will continue when choice prompt is selected. >

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Luna Kindred**Sister, celebrate my birthday with me.**
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Luna Kindred**It doesn't matter. If I want, every day is my birthday. I'm going to make up for all the birthdays I didn't get to celebrate with you.**
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Luna Kindred**Tee-hee, let's blow the candle and make a wish together.**
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Luna Kindred**I wish…**
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Luna Kindred**Begone, Theresa.**
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Luna Kindred**Sometimes I fantasize that I had the chance to go to school back then.**
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Luna Kindred**Scribbling on textbooks, eating snacks with friends in class and getting caught, hanging out with them after school and agreeing to see each other tomorrow…**
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Luna Kindred**By the way, what would you do if you found out students were bad-mouthing you behind your back?**
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Luna Kindred**Haha… You're a kind teacher.**
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Luna Kindred**Going to school… Thank you. Someone like me has long since lost the chance to experience it.**
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**Her fingers had become numb. Only the stinging pain from her heart kept her mind lucid.**
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**But was this the time to stop?**
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**💬**Continue**💬**Continue< The story will continue when either choice prompt is selected. >

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Luna Kindred**Haaah… So cold.**
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Luna Kindred**lt's so wet on rainy days. I hate it.**
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Luna Kindred**But why are your hands always so warm?**
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Luna Kindred**Do you remember our promise? At that time, I said I'd wait, no matter how long it'd take.**
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Luna Kindred**But now I've changed my mind. I… don't want to see you again.**
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Luna Kindred**This dump is doesn't even have a ceiling. Aren't you cold? You'll be soaked if it rains.**
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Luna Kindred**…**
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Luna Kindred**Oops, I forgot you're sleeping and can't answer me.**
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Luna Kindred**…**
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Luna Kindred**I'm bored. My sister went to work again. I wanted to go with her, but she wouldn't let me.**
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Luna Kindred**But I followed her secretly, hee-hee. Guess what I found out?**
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Luna Kindred**That's right, she's been lying to me.**
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Luna Kindred**I don't understand. She said she'll help me to the end… but it's fine, I'm not mad at all. Even if I'm alone, I can do it.**
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Luna Kindred**I've always been alone anyway.**
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**The consciousness had reached its tolerance limit. If this continued, it'd eventually—**
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**💬**Continue**💬**Continue**💬**Continue< The story will continue when any choice prompt is selected. >

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**At first, it was a viscous fog.**
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**The fog faded, revealing a world of bloody red.**
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**But just keep moving the stiff limbs forward, toward the disjointed sobbing, and one would discover—**
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**I'm back in that place again.**
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**I didn't know if I was in a dream.**
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**I only knew she must be waiting for me.**
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**The light from street lamps and the moon intertwined in the dark alley, exactly the same as that night.**
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**The endless waiting felt like a moment. Nothing had changed.**
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**As if nothing had happened, and everything could be saved.**
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**Fingertips had been numbed by the cold, but the heart beat with a fiery vigor.**
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**Every step pained like being pierced by a million needles.**
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**But almost there!**
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**The next corner, in the next corner, she would surely be gasping sharply in agony on the cold tiles, just as she remembered.**
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**And this time, I'll—**
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