Ailith on Secrets
Ailith: It is peculiar to me, to fully understand what I feel right now. After… so long.
Warrior: What is on your mind, Ailith?
Witch: Uh oh. Are you about to get… emotional?
Sorceress: What troubles you, Ailith?
Ranger: Xesht is defeated. I thought you’d be happy.
Huntress: Thought you’d be in for celebration, not introspection.
Mercenary: Are you… okay, miss?
Monk: I’m… not sure I understand.
Druid: Oh, dear… there’s great sorrow in you. You’ve hidden it well, lass. Dinnae hold back now.
Duelist: [DNT] Shadow: [DNT] Templar: [DNT] Marauder: [DNT] Ailith: [DNT] Ailith: I do not have much time. Please, just listen.
Ailith: The Dreamer is not truthful. At least… not wholly. Over countless lives, I have pieced together fragments of the truth, and finally, I know his real nature. It is true, he seeks to protect life itself… but to do so, he would subjugate us all. He is both unlike his brethren and alike them. While they seek to consume us, he seeks to dominate us. Unthinking drones. Smiling peacefully. Our very humanity ripped from us. Thriving, but not living, within his version of a perfected world. That… is Chayula’s perverse dream.
Warrior: Chayula?
Witch: Chayula?
Sorceress: Chayula?
Ranger: Chayula?
Huntress: Chayula?
Mercenary: Chayula?
Monk: Ailith! You should not speak his true name aloud!
Druid: Chayula?
Duelist: [DNT] Shadow: [DNT] Templar: [DNT] Marauder: [DNT] Ailith: His true name. His Hive Lord name.
Warrior: I… am at loss for words. We must stop him.
Witch: I took one look at him and knew he was no good. How did you not see it? He fell out of a sac!
Sorceress: Bah! So blinded by my fascination… I could not see him for what he truly was!
Ranger: I knew I was right not to trust him! He is a snake, through and through.
Huntress: Spirit’s breath… I trusted you, Ailith. I trusted {him}.
Mercenary: I knew it! I knew this shite was too good to be true. He’s been pullin’ the wool all along!
Monk: And tell me… who are you to say his vision is not the world we deserve?
Druid: I wish I were wrong about folk… but in the pit o’ my stomach, I felt no sense o’ goodness in him!
Duelist: [DNT] Shadow: [DNT] Templar: [DNT] Marauder: [DNT] Ailith: His power is immense. You have not seen it or… felt it like I have.
Ailith: He has been within my every thought since I came into existence. Waking… sleeping… he’s always been there.
Ailith: We were both fooled. As all the Keepers continue to be.
Ailith: I’m sorry to have led you down this path.
Ailith: I know… I’m sorry. I truly am.
Ailith: It has cost me greatly to attain this knowledge. You can’t imagine… the hold he has, and has {always had}, over my mind…
Ailith: You must look inside yourself to answer that question. I cannot do it for you.
Ailith: I could never see it clearly. Clues scattered through countless versions of myself… Only now do they finally make sense.
Ailith: [DNT] Ailith: [DNT] Ailith: [DNT] Ailith: [DNT] Warrior: Then what do we do? There must be some way I can help you.
Witch: A controlling master. And you… his puppet. There’s a certain cruelty to enslaving the living that even I can’t abide.
Sorceress: And now all of Wraeclast will pay the price – unless he is brought to heel.
Ranger: Doesn’t matter now, does it? We’re here either way.
Huntress: Keep your bloody apologies. Ugh, what a wretched fool I’ve been.
Mercenary: Sure, that’s your excuse. What’s mine? Just went along with it all like a good little soldier! Bloody idiot.
Druid: I know what it means to reassemble your mind, dear lass. My heart breaks for ye. Just know that I’ll be by yer side.
Duelist: [DNT] Shadow: [DNT] Ailith: [DNT] Ailith: I feel… him… returning. Please. Remember what I have told you, but do not speak of it freely with She Who Comes Next.