Sakamoto's Age: 4.5
Setting: Harrow's Reach
Tone: Uneasy. Tension between walls. Magic in the air.
Status: The party is under city protection — for now.
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Opening Line:
Some cities whisper your name.
This one… whispered what you did before you were born.
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Reading the Scroll
I opened the scroll Theren gave me.
It smelled like ash.
The ink moved as I read it — not like it was enchanted… but like it was still bleeding.
The scene it showed me:
> A battlefield.
A broken gate.
And me — older. Taller. Crownless. Eyes hollow.
I was Aevum.
I held Niris.
And I screamed as I stabbed her through the heart.
She smiled.
Then crumbled into dust.
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Sakamoto Breaks (A Flash of the Past)
I fell to my knees in the hall.
The scroll burned in my hands.
And for a second… I wasn't 4.5 anymore.
I was nineteen.
Drunk. Cold. Laughing in a stairwell before jumping into a road.
And the last thought I had before dying wasn't "I want another chance."
It was:
> "I hope no one finds my browser history."
Then I was back.
Gasping.
Aelira caught me before I hit the stone.
> "You're pale."
> "I remember dying."
> "In this world?"
> "No. The one before."
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Aelira's Mutation Escalates
Later that night, her magic flared again.
Black lines ran up her neck now.
Her eyes flickered orange-red — not fire… unstable mana core fusion.
> "You're changing fast," I said.
> "I know."
> "Are you scared?"
> "Yes."
> "Want me to stop it?"
> "No. Just… don't let me turn into something you have to kill."
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Ravian Gets a Letter
Ravian received a sealed message via bird.
He didn't open it.
But he knew the seal.
> "That's from the Herald Office," he said.
> "Good or bad?"
> "If they sent it, it's because someone wants you used before you're burned."
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Final Scene – The Girl in Chains
In a hidden cell beneath the citadel, a figure stirred.
A young girl — maybe twelve — eyes glowing with cursed glyphs.
She whispered:
> "Aevum is alive."
Her shackles cracked.
A noble screamed somewhere above.
And the city bells rang for the first time in ten years.