2023-01-24: Communion

• Cutscene: Communion
• Cast: Elisa Kafim
• Where: The Silent Castle, Kaffeklubben Island
• Date: 0097 - 01 - 24
• Summary: Elisa has been busy, deep in union with the Void. But eventually, she awakens...

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Elisa Kafim's eyes are black, utter voids in which the reflection of the chamber cannot be seen. The stone chamber around her is stark; the tapestries decorating it are long destroyed. The center of the chamber holds a great crystal ball, and it is alive with green, crackling energy.

This state of events has been the case for some time now, in the Silent Castle. Elisa meditates upon the void, as she has for many days now, looking for a solution to her problem. The problem of Yuliana's safety...

Elisa's hands barely touch the crystal, her fingertips upon it; occasionally, dark lightning crackles forth from it and from her, scorching the walls. She waits. She listens. She communes. And then--

And then abrubtly she stops, and lets out a breath that she never noticed she was holding. Her eyes uncloud, becoming natural green once again. She looks down at the crystal ball, and murmurs a single word:

"Emptear..."

Then, creaking at the joints for her unmoving stature for so long, she rises from her reverie, pads across the room where she finds a robe outside. "Servant," she says, catching a dull-eyed man on rounds. "How long have I been in communion?"

Nearly a week...

"Mistress," the servant says, dully. "Your wife gave me this to give to you..."

"What?" Elisa inquires, and takes the note from his hands, looking down to read it.

My dearest,

Our mutual friends have found some trouble, and I wish to aid them. I know you asked me to stay in our Castle, and of course by and large I shall, but... I feel I must do this, Elya. I must grasp my own hilt, and use my strength as my own, for my own desires.

And alas, I have never suffered a quiet recovery well. I know I cause quite a lot of trouble for you... would that my soul were less unsettled.

Do not worry. I will be cautious. I have installed an identity modulator into this suit, and I shall not get close enough for anyone to sense my aura. No one will know.

I'm sure I'll be back before you even stir to read this, but just in case your efforts pay off quickly -- I'd not wish you to worry.

I love you.

Her blood is already cold. It cannot be colder. But she feels a chill nevertheless.

"...Where. Where is she?" Elisa says, staring down at it. She snaps, "Fetch my phone."

"Yes, Mistress..."

Elisa receives her phone, and looks down to see dozens of messages--messages from allies of convenience, but messages that detail the arrest of one Yuliana Kafim...

Outside, the shriek of rage echoing throughout the castle is still audible.

The servants do not stir.