[ChicletPrime]

• Okay, so this is interesting. "This space doesn't truly exist. It's simply a shadow cast from somewhere else." so.. protocores are projections or reflections from somewhere else? some other reality? the symbols that are carved on the rocks in this place of white sand "might be from the past... or a more distant future." so protocores exist at all times simultaneously? which seems is true of the girlfriend/boyfriends as well.
  
• The Prettiest Rain Ever Happens™ per Zayne, the rain is "time itself". well, he would know i guess, at least in this incarnation.
  
• .. the dialogue in this section is.. not good. "... it would make me look like a hooligan". a.. hooligan. the localisation team aren't being paid very well and it shows.
  
• oh no. the rain stops, he's about to send me back to Niava and... it starts to snow. that cannot be good. like the falling petals on the Tree of Life in the other myth, I guess. every one unique and all fated to die. "this snow is unworthy of your affection." hey, that's a terrible thing to say. i shouldn't love mortal lives?
  
• and we fixed the river, yay.
  
• uh... we wake up in the Divine Tower and... Zayne is just getting dressed? did we... DID WE? please please please tell me we had thank god we saved ourselves sex.
  
• nicely said. if something never dies, nothing new can arise in its place. so protecting Niava and its peoples so vigorously will doom them to stagnation and enervation? gee, where have we seen THAT before?
  
• ...and as i am about to hop down out of the bed, he pulls me back by my belt.
  
• i am sorry. Zayne is great. he's the least well (voice) acted of all the boyfriends, but if you just take the written word at face value, he's so awesome. his story is fantastic.
  
• huh. Zayne is known to some people as the "High Priest". i guess if he's going to wander around in white veils with gold markings all over his pretty skin, he's going to need some sort of cover story or end up kidnapped into a high end brothel.
  
• So Zayne stopped me from entering the Vastraen, and he's also 'letting' it erode Niava. ohhhh. so if Zayne (or me?) take any real action against the Vastraen, it would accelerate the destruction. pyhrric victory ahoy!
  
• oh great, another child infected with "a lump" on his chest. which Zayne cures by actual medicine and some light surgery? well. okay. no divine intervention needed here, just a whole pile of esoteric knowledge about herbs and the sterile uses of honey. will that somehow be applicable in my specific case as well, with my pain full heart?
  
• okay, so my gift is knowledge of "Medicine"? that's actually super helpful. hopefully i won't end up like Prometheus, only heart, not liver.
  
• ooookay, so now Zayne is on a quest to teach me all sorts of advancements for civilization. its like i'm watching Civ 5 speed past my eyes.
  
• the re-use of backgrounds can sometimes be very jarring. this is the walkway/balcony that I met Xavier on in Philos.
  
• yet even as Niava prospers, my body starts to fail, starting at the mostly healed crack in my palm. oops. back in the Divine Tower, Zayne's got a fractured protocore that the monster blocking the river dropped. "At the time... he travelled to (the river)'s source to destroy the magical array he had once created there." what does THAT mean? "Unexpectedly, the array meant to separate two realms had transformed into a massive monster after accumulating energy for countless years." that... that seems very important. Zayne: "If I don't destroy the remaining magical arrays, she and Niava will face an even greater disaster." one of the Golden Aenzu squawks in apparent protest, and Zayne says "Why are you sad? Before everything was created, the ending had already been written."
  
• ah yes, lets go find some answers in Limbo. or not. Zayne locked the door this time.
  
• Zayne The Lover is sooooo smooth. /swoon
  
• OPTIONS: Seduce Him / Make Him Intoxicated
  
• i demand this exact scenario for both Sylus and Caleb, damn it. aaand Lavender opts to intoxicate. COWARD. we sit on his lap and apply the wine liberally. Zayne conks out after one glass but i'm not suspicious for more than two heartbeats. back to the Aengru Spire with his pendant!
  
• yeah, this is a bad idea, girlfriend. you're not supposed to see anything outside of your own senses, why do you think Zayne keeps it from you?
  
• The birds carrying golden threads, dust falling as if from rivers. i open the crack my hand and blood calls to one of the Aenzu so that's Niava's thread. i catch it (?) and we're in the hellscape. A figure in gray robes appears and the bird lands on his shoulder.
  
• Okay, its the horned creature from the very beginning. "Deity who has trespassed into Everlost..." oh crap. so whatever Zayne did here, its taken a lot of his power and he's going to meet his end. The figure says he came here for the Creatio stone beyond the Gates, the power to create life and resurrect the dead. It was resting in eternal slumber until 'that god took it.'
  
• "The cold that sweeps across eons drags my soul back to blurry yet vivid bloody memories." yeah, Zayne brought us back using the Stone, which means he knew me before we met on Niava, our fates already intertwined.
  
• "White bones dance wildly, rivers of blood boil, and thorns (?!) leave crisscrossed bloody marks on a body stripped of power."
  
• IT JUST OCCURRED TO ME. EVERLOST. EVER! oh my god. what are the chances?
  
• OH MAN. the scales of Anubis .. the stone - and Zayne's heart. "I will give her a new life... and a place to rest. Death shall no longer be her destiny this time." Did he.. did he bleed on the Stone? Lapis lazuli turned to red as it starts to beat like a heart.
  
• well, we're not going to let him do THAT again. so we makes our plans to meet our fate on our own terms that don't require a devastating sacrifice, until the day that Zayne invites me to 'go to the Vastraen'.
  

so, bloody hell (heavy on the blood). is the whole problem with the Wanderers and EVER and Philos lost to the destruction of immortality, all to do with the fact that Zayne, keeper of fate, brought back the Creation stone from beyond the veil just to save me with it - and like, doomed EVERYTHING ELSE?

if so, i am in awe. wow.

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