Endgame: This Broken Jaw of Our Lost Kingdoms; Part One

[animusmods]

Characters: open to those trapped in cells
Setting: the cells
Format: any
Summary: Those left abandoned in the Tower have some time to speak to each other. In the middle of the room, a clock counts down...
Warnings: general animus endgame warnings

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[warriorscribe]

*Sitting against the side of his cell, Enoch shakes his head.* I'm afraid I don't, only that it's somewhere below, in our hosts' levels. Are you all right? What happened up there?

[bydefacto]

I'm okay. [Sealand's shoulder's slump, lowering his sword to the floor.] I don't... know. I just remember trying to keep safe, then I blacked out and woke up here.

[warriorscribe]

*So she'd taken everyone, just like he thought.*

...We encountered Ruana after we'd defeated Riki. She tried to claim again she'd saved us. We told her we knew otherwise and she...said we didn't understand. She'd show us. *He seems to deflate as well. He could easily be mistaken for asleep if he wasn't talking.*

Apparently, she meant all of us... I'm sorry.

[bydefacto]

But this isn't saving us! This is locking us up. [A huff. This isn't fair.]

[warriorscribe]

I know...she doesn't seem to be able to see it that way. Her madness blinds her.

*And yet, he tries to make her see, again and again.*