You guide the Ramulose into alignment with the enemy mothership.

They're probably responding to your Kell's call for aid—just as you are. Your instruments detect multiple life signs blessed with Ether aboard.

You wonder if your Kell has a plan for escape, or how she would ever be taken willingly, and whether you're missing elements of a nuanced plan. Without waiting for orders, you silently key up your systems and power your Arc weapons…

And then, suddenly, the only thing you have in common with yourself is that that's who you used to be—

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dreams, voice, belong to new Kell now, Eliksni no longer.

chain to chain to chain

invigorated

bleeding brain

fulfill House Rain's prophecy, father as Kell of Kells.

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father doesn't want it, father wants who you used to be, not to have it, those like you can't have it, destroy the very idea of it, destroy the idea of those people—

and when nothing's left

set a new course for Ramulose, straight through the bridge, a glimpse of Kell's plans.

path he wishes to burn through asteroid field, make new home for new people, better people

we remain

wish you could see it, but know path ends here, at the bridge

the other side of the bridge.

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