Elianor lays her living gift against the red script. The marks blaze, and the sealed throat opens with a grinding roar beneath the chamber floor.
Pain climbs from the silver brand to her skull, but satisfaction answers from her patron and steadies her. Red streaks spread through her dark hair as consecrated fire gathers in her lungs.
Elianor's patron
The source must be destroyed. I will aid you.
A breath leaves Elianor as a brief tongue of consecrated flame, hot enough to promise ruin to whatever waits below. The new fire settles deep in her chest.
Black stone grinds apart beneath the chamber, revealing a descending passage. Pressure swells through the walls as the buried army stirs around Celia and Maurice.
Celia Graves
The passage is open. Whatever waits below now knows we are here.
Maurice Headsman
Then the choice is no longer hidden. Elianor, can you walk, and can you control that fire?
✓ Quest Accepted
Destroy the source of the undead army