The blank pages of the Forbidden volume slowly regain their ink. Green light crawls across the gallery, revealing that the severed memory-thread has left the surrounding routes unstable.
The White-Scaled Dragonborne
Worried, mostly. A ruin that remembers travelers is dangerous enough without someone teaching it to forget them.
Ezra glances toward the gallery behind them, where the floating maps shift out of alignment. Far above, Mira remains at the terrace, separated from them by the impossible doorway and descending paths.
The White-Scaled Dragonborne
I am not accusing you. I am asking whether that was protection, concealment, or the beginning of a larger mistake.
A low note sounds beneath the stones. The basin chamber answers from somewhere below, and three destination marks flare on the walls before one fades into darkness.
The White-Scaled Dragonborne
The ruin is reacting to the missing record. We should decide quickly whether to return to the basin or follow the mark it just revealed.
The recovered script settles on a single phrase: a road opens only when the remembered traveler chooses where to be known. Ezra watches Diamond, waiting for his answer.
✓ Quest Accepted
Determine where the newly revealed road leads