[Week 2] Early morning day 320

[desperate_times_right]

[Chloe’s mental voice sounds weak and disoriented, as if she’s in shock]

Can someone come to the caves? I need help.

I think Hana’s dead.

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[youandyoualone]

Ah, no. Not quite. 'Tis a Spire in the Vale, one that has kept more knowledge and lost arts than any other. The man whose mind Naoki woke me up inside is a Cabalist. They believe that the Spires and the Vale must be united once more in order for the people to survive--but that in doing so, they must not reproduce the horrors of the past.

Ghalib was to be Cabal's tool for it, but he has been proven irreparably flawed. I think Qabil--the particular Cabalist who has been most intimately involved in the plan and who has been spending the most time in Ghalib's company--will be quite pleased to arrange their vengeance.

[lightnovelexperiences]

...you know, it's nice for the shadowy conspiracy to be on your side, for once.

[...time to do something decisive. Time to act the way Penuel would want her to.]

Tell your buddies that at least one Traveller will stand with the Cabalists, but that our window to act is narrow. And when this is over, let's go to Yomi, and tell me about sharing a room with your overlay?

[Totally not asking him out. Not a date. Nope.]

[youandyoualone]

I will do so, though I am unsure how willing they would be to accept aid from 'Portori' as they call us.

[There's a hint of amusement in his mental voice,] And I would be quite happy to visit Yomi with you, my sweet.

[lightnovelexperiences]

After the Travellers screwing up so bad it killed a God, I can understand if they're reluctant, and -

[Excuse her as she hears the latter part of the statement and bluescreens for a moment.

reeeeeset. There we go]

I-it's a date...!

[youandyoualone]

So it is. Mayhap I will get my answer on the question of your tail when we do.