### ** sinner **
** [Scene: Forest Path - Midnight] **
*(The moon hangs high above the twisted branches and throws silver light through a thick canopy. The air is thick by fog, holding on to the ground like scary fingers. Elara, Lucian and Seraphine head towards the destroyed tower, their tracks barely make sound on wet ground.)*)*)*)*)*)*)*)*)*)*)*)*)*)*)*)*)*)*)*)*)*)*)*)*)*)*)*)*)*)*)*)*)*)*)*)*)*)*)*)*)*)*)*)*)*)*)*)*)*)*)*)*)*)
** Lucian: ** (mumble) "I hate this place."
** seraphine: ** (grinned) "Oh, don't be so dramatic. It's just a cursed forest."
** Lucian: ** (dry) "exactly".
** Elara: ** (focused) "We must still move. The longer we stay open, the more vulnerable we are."
** serraphine: ** (teasing) "I'm afraid of something,*princess*?"
** Elara: ** (quietly) "something doesn't feel good."
*(Lucian and Serraphine Exchange look, but don't even argue. The deeper they go, the more unnatural the forest becomes. The trees seem to whisper and the shadows move even if no one moves.)*
** Lucian: ** (sword grasping) "I don't like it."
** serraphine: ** (ridicule) "When do you ever like something?"
** Lucian: ** (flat) "When*no*I enter an apparent danger."
*(Suddenly the branch will surprise behind them.
** Elara: ** (Whispering) "We are not alone."
*(Low growl grows over trees.)*
** Lucian: ** (Mumming) "We're not of course."
*(Three figures appear from the shadows - two creatures with elongated limbs, hollow eyes and jagged teeth. Their skin is gray, stretched too tightly over their bones. They move unnaturally, their joints burst as they rise forward.)
** serraphine: ** (grinning) "Oh, amazing. Nightwalkers."
** Elara: ** (tense) "They should not be so far south."
** Lucian: ** (grim) "Then we are*very bad."
*(Creation hissing, their eyes slightly shining in the dark. One with the lung.)*
*(Lucian is moving first, his sword flashes in the moonlight. He advises the claws of creation and puts them back. Other jumps towards Ela, but lifts the light shield and sends it back. Seraphine simply follows, entertain.)
** Lucian: ** (clenched teeth) "Seraphine, whenever*time*now!"
** serraphine: ** (ridicule) "Oh, I assume I could help."
*(She rumps his wrists and the shadows cracked from the ground and wrapped around the nearest night crossing.
** Elara: ** (lapping for breath) "afraid."
** serraphine: ** (grinned) "Okay. They should be."
*(Lucian does not hesitate.
*(Silence falls.)*
** Lucian: ** (breathes hard) "No. That was unpleasant."
** serraphine: ** (smile) "I thought it was fun."
** Elara: ** (still on the edge) "They shouldn't be here. Someone - or* something* - is south."
** Lucian: ** (grim) "Do you think it's because of the fortune teller?"
** Seraphine: ** (ridicules) "Oh, absolutely. She*loves*society."
** Elara: ** (firm) "Then we don't have time to waste."
*(Continuing forward, tension strong in air. Forest darker, temperature drops with every step. Finally, cleaning - and in the middle stands a destroyed tower.)*
** [scene: destroyed towers] **
*(Spire is a decaying tower, its walls covered with old runes. The air hums the undefined power. At the base of the tower, the character is waiting.)*
*(Oracle of Shadows.)*
*(She is masked in dark blue, her silver hair falls around the wool.
** Oracle: ** (calmly) "You came far away, baby Forsaken."
*(Elara's breath catches. The voice of Oracle is soft yet carries the weight of the century.)*
** Elara: ** (hesitant) "You know who I am."
** Oracle: ** (nod) "I have known you since you were born."
** Lucian: ** (restless) "It's not worrying*all*."
** serraphine: ** (grinning) "Oh, silence. Let the old woman talk."
** Oracle: ** (Elara study) "You are looking for the truth. But beware, baby - truth is a blade.
** Elara: ** (determined) "I don't care. I have to know about my father."
*(Oracle's expression remains unreadable. Then gestures on the entrance to the tower.)*
** Oracle: ** "Then enter. If you dare."
*(Cold wind is mixed as the door is shining with a frightening blue light. The air moves - heavy, charged with magic.)*
** Lucian: ** (Mumming) "I*Really*don't like it."
** serraphine: ** (ridicule) "Never*you have nothing like nothing."
** Elara: ** (will take a deep breath) "We're going together."
*(Lucian hesitates but nods. Seraphine, grinning, first crept forward.)*
*(One by one enters the tower, darkness is swallowing all.)*
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