Shadow rondo

[Ebiris]

"Where did you come from? Did you know each other? Did you know the real Colke, if there was one?" Alicia asks.

[Anastasia]

"We came from there. 666," Is the answer, "I'm not sure anymore. Was there a real one? I think so, but..." Her expression becomes exhausted, "We found what we feared. We feared there was nothing, that everything was ultimately a lie."

[Ebiris]

"I meant originally. Did you reach 666 from somewhere else or were you born there?" Alicia clarifies.

[Anastasia]

"I went there. I sought it," Colke says, "Why I'm not entirely clear, but I needed to find out. I needed to find out if I was right and everything is a lie."

[Ebiris]

"Am I a lie? Is this a lie?" Alicia steps aside so the light of Chronias can shine down fully.

[Anastasia]

The answer is a wail of pain, fear and terror.

"Nothing here is a lie," Antenora comes to her, "Renounce your error. Come to us." She gestures higher and then offers her hand to Colke, "Save yourself."

Charisma check, both you and Antenora. +7 bonus.

[Ebiris]

[19:57] <@Ebiris> roll 1d20+30
[19:57] <Penuche2> Ebiris invokes Penuche's magic: < 43 > [d20=13]

[Anastasia]

> roll 1d20+26 Antenora
<Penuche2> Kotono invokes Penuche's magic: < 27 > [d20=1]

Not Antenora's day. Upside, it should be +2 more for divine rank so a total of 29 instead.

"You...you're real." Is the answer at last, looking up at Alicia. "You're not a lie, are you?"

[Ebiris]

"I'm not," Alicia asserts her truth as confidently as one who's stood outside of Creation and declared her being against the Beyond can, extending a hand down as Antenora did.

"The power of 666 is lies, and it is a fearsome power. But I exist. I am real and true and I am."

[Anastasia]

Your hand is taken. In that moment Colke seems to tear herself asunder - as if coming undone.

Yet the light of Chronias shines brightly.

A shaking, nude woman stands before you, as if the Colke before was broken away and crumbled to dust in the sea. She collapses against you as you hold her, breathing heavily. She has hair as wispy-white as an old man's, yet is youthful. An adult, perhaps 18 to 20 years old.

[Ebiris]

Alicia creates a simple white cotton shift around the woman's figure for the sake of her modesty. "Do you know who you are?" she asks, holding her now.

[Anastasia]

"No one. I'm no one," The woman answers slowly, "No one at all."

[Ebiris]

"Then what do you remember?" Alicia tries, hoping some kind of insight will result from all this drama.

[Anastasia]

"I'm nothing. A lie. I a lie created in 666." Is her answer, quietly whispered to you. "Colke found what he feared, that everything was a lie. That there was no greater purpose to anything. That nothing in this Creation matters, except to be torn down."

[Ebiris]

"Then why do you exist?"