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Somehow. In all the mess that was the past two days everyone forgot that we were on a mission to get the last orb needed to open Dormont’s House of Change. Even today we were well into a relaxing lunch when Mirabelle suddenly remembered and yelled out “WE FORGOT THE ORB!!!” Everyone jumped up and started to panic until Odile and Isabeau calmed us down. We then turned our relaxing lunch into a strategy meeting to get that orb. All of the orbs so far have either been in the old, abandoned castles from long ago or in Houses of Change that got converted from those castles.
The party was lucky that before you joined they only had to go to houses of change to get the orbs but the last one and this one are in those old places. Odile and you managed to convince the others that it’d be wise to let you lead when going into these places before by somewhat lying and telling them that you were “good with traps” but in reality you have seen and had to take down traps like these before back when they were active and you would sneak in to see why they were special.
After the lunch/meeting you all started making your way to the castle. There weren’t as many sadnesses as before, luckily, and once you actually got inside you started looking around for traps or…
…… hold on
“I remember this place!”
“Oh? Please tell us”
“Here I know a shortcut that’ll lead us to the noble's office.”
“You know a shortcut? Did you know the noble or something?”
“Yeah, I guess you could say that he was old even when I first met him, he would tell me stories about the past and we’d play games whenever he had time. He was really nice but his husband ugh. Hated him. He kept trying to chase me out anytime he caught me saying “stop coming back” or something. Anyway, this should be the place.” you open the old door leading to the old noble's office. You still remember how he would keep a treat or two here just in case you visited…… you wonder what happened to him… you never did say goodbye. “You did say that the orb was in here right Mira?”
“Yes… it should be around… Ah here it is.” she grabs the orb out of a drawer putting it in her bag with the rest. “We can leave now. Was there anything else you remember about this place, Siffrin?”
“Not much else. Though it is a shame to see that this place didn’t get converted to a house of change.”
“After all of this is over maybe we can ask the Head House Maiden. We’ll have to beat The King first though.”
Isa already sensing Mirabelle getting into her own head he steps up “No need to sound so defeated Mira. we got this right guys!”
You and Bonnie Join Isa in cheering Mira up as everyone leaves the castle. But as you get back to the entrance you see a sadness. It’s just roaming around, barely even keeping its form; at least it seems to be old enough to start fading.… it turns to you as everyone leaves but instead of attacking or running at you it just stares… you feel something stirring inside of you. You're not familiar with this feeling but you don’t like or dislike it… You quickly leave joining the others but before you can it runs up to you.
You don’t have time to react as you close your eyes and prepare for it to strike!
… you feel a malformed hand touch you. You open your eyes and see the sadness with more clarity. It reminds you of him, but that's impossible. It's been years, decades! Sadnesses don’t last that long. But this one… this one isn’t attacking you nor is it trying to freeze you in time. It’s just looking at you, looking at your face with big teary eyes.
you move your hand to touch it back. You open your mouth to say sorry, to say goodbye but before you can you see the old man smile
Before vanishing.
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