Void Rift (rp) - Intermission

Angela's appearance remains unchanged.

"Oh my goodness...are you feeling alright?" Angela asks, shocked to see Sapphire's wounds.

 

Sapphire's armor soon covers up every cut and gash there was, most of them showing metallic bones.
"I'm fine. However, you make it seem like Abigail has a twin."

 

"Follow me."
I say, making way towards the stairwell and eventually going up it.

 

"She's never mentioned a twin. Besides, wouldn't a twin have a different soul, if it does match Abigail's?" Stephanie asks.

 

"True, which is why this makes no sense." Sapphire says before quickly touching an ice shard against Angela's skin, still suspicious.

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"Ah... of course." Rineth sighs, following you...


The guards stop you.
"You have it?"
"He does. Here."

The guard inspects the parts.
"Good... you may enter, but your friend must leave."
Rineth nods.
"Hope you find what you need, Thirteen." He says, leaving.

 

Angela jumps, "H-Hey, that's cold!" She says, caught off guard.

 

"Have a good day. Let me know what I can make it up to you."
I call after him, turning back to the guards.

 

"Okay, I'm done tormenting you, sorry."
She turns to Stephanie.
"It's like Abigail did a body swap or something. I suggest you get what you need to run a soul check; that's what's so weird about this."

Rineth nods, disappearing as he heads down the stairwell.

"Okay, the royal library is upstairs and to the right. Spiral staircase is... well, it's behind you."

 

"Alright. Thanks. What will you be doing with the parts, if you don't mind me asking?"

 

"What? B-Body swap!?" Angela asks, shocked and scared.

"I don't think it's a body swap. I don't have the supplies for that, and Abigail isn't naturally gifted with that sort of magic. It's strange if her soul is Abigail's though." Stephanie says.

 

"Bring me more and I'll flip a coin. If it's heads, I'd tell. If it's tails, I still wouldn't."

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Sapphire uses woven threads to show Stephanie the results of the soul scan, and how they were identical.

 

"Alright. I might do that."
I say, taking the staircase and following his directions.

 

The royal library is just at the end of the flight of stairs. It's much smaller, but there's more clearly labelled subsections.

 

I look at the subsections.

 

They seem to have some kind of magic seal over them, except for the "Inhibitor" subsection.

 

I look at some of the books from that subsection.

 

After paging through, you learn that the Inhibitor is a rather vile contraption that slowly burns somebody's soul to keep the Ruin at bay. It seems to consist of a crystalline prison where someone can be forcibly trapped inside and slowly burnt until there is nothing left of them. The books don't detail how it works, suggesting an alien technology, but they do say that the time is drawing near for the royalty to sacrifice another of their bloodline to keep the Inhibitor burning...

 

A bit disgusted, I put the books back, before looking for a desk or counter that might have a librarian.

 

There is no librarian, it seems. It's more of a book room than a library.

 

I check the strength of the magic seals on the other books.