[ChicletPrime]

Chapter 6

• oh god, my heart. he wakes up in the field of flowers to find us lying down, just looking at him. "I had an incredibly long dream."  lets... lets just stop here for a minute before he really wakes up and remembers what's going on.
  
• yeah, this is kindheartbreaking. this VA is REALLY putting in his best work, for sure. this is so light and sweet and even a little teasing, while still retaining the essence of king in the inflection and depth. and o, the sadness that keeps flickering across his face.
  
• ah. the bloom he's trying to nurture is the wavyleaf that was all over the place at the school.
  
• yes, i agree. we were incredibly dense in that life. kind of like a collapsed banana loaf or something. potentially still edible but is it really worth the effort with that much necessary chewing? 
  
• did you notice we pricked our finger on his brooch again, as we did back then when he tried to be the fool in need of aid and asked us to pin it straight for him? 
  
• this is just the same conversation, but we've reversed roles. back then, we told him to forget her if she wouldn't stand by his side. and now he's telling us to forget 'him', if that person we had feelings for wasn't there to stand at our side.
  
• i think we just broke the spell where he was still half caught in his sleeping dream? 
  
• /squeaks
  
• I AM SUCH A SUCKER for kisses when the kiss'er thinks everything is okay because this is obviously not real. 
  
• /flutters fingers in agitation
  

Chapter 7

• some of me wants to try and tie this acknowledgement that the longer she stays in Sindersfell, the more memory she is going to lose back to Xavier in Chapter 8 who was talking to Jeremiah about how people were starting to forget them. 
  
• i do like that Xavier holds some resentment for the fact that every time she meets him again, she remembers crap all and he's always starting from square -1. 
  
• well, that's a visual all right. a "tree" made of crystallized skeletons.
  
• oh man, he gave me a protocore. again. and this time i actually took it.  i love cycles!
  
• awww, gravestone flashback and now i have a name again.
  
• that's interesting! i never thought about the opposite interpretation of "target anchor lost". that could certainly work and they do like to do that kind of stuff sometimes.  although he did make it back eventually. 
  
• what is the point of still doing the Pilgrimage, i wonder. they are dead, technically already fed to the planet, but some  still rise and fight again over and over, while some huddle in a city made of memories they don't really grasp. but they still board their boats and those that go never return. so the dead will get.. deader? until this place is entirely barren? maybe that's what Xavier is marking time for, when he has no burden because there's no one left at all. and its just him and the flowers and the sky.
  
• how do i keep losing my memory? he's sending me back to the Tree to .. pass through to Philos and he's implanted the suggestion that i go find his spaceship and the coordinates there that will take me to Uluru?  what is going on. and i have the protocore fragment that is another piece of my heart, it seems. 
  
• wow, a real Tree of Life! what is going ooooooon.
  
• i really like that "correct divergence point and new possiblities."  the king's phrase during combat.. "end the story if you can't change it." (also "death claims you twice.")
  
• okay, so this is like a Hades run or something. we have to keep going back and doing it over and over and over again until we find the correct path or path(s) and letting the false/dead ones die and collapse.
  

Chapter 8? i am losing track of the chapters since they're not labelled

• i like this horse. i'm keeping her.
  
• so we've killed this timeline, this dying and dead possibility but we gotta get back to Xavier because of course we do.
  
• aaaand back to war because why not. 
  
• that is another mention of Apocalypse.  i guess... is there an ACTUAL Doomsday? a fated Ragnarok and the turning of the Great Wheel, etc? will i find out out in Sylus' myths? 
  
• RESONANCE! MY BELOVED!
  
• fucking hell, what you said about Raf's myth. Philos doesn't need traitors!  
  
• do you get the impression that the "Elder" "Bishop" "Teacher" etc is a single entity that also spans our evolving timelines?
  
• and the big cut scene. i like that we put aside both crown and sword as unnecessary.
  
• i love Xavier's kisses. 
  
• huh huh huh
  
• and finally, the "eye" of the galaxy again - "Philos, Outer Space, East".  (my 2025 brain is giggling over space having an "east".
  
• shit. Traceback II wasn't just skipping time, it was skipping realities.
  
• a river that flows forever .. the deepspace tunnel. the sinder. the rivers of the abysswalker sands? 
  

that was kind of something. good job, myth! everybody hit the showers.