Seren acts first, tightening his charcoal markings around the arch as its protective lines shudder. Beyond the threshold, the return route thins beneath a spreading darkness.
Seren Arcal
The far side is consuming the route. I can hold the arch, but not if that darkness reaches the return-sign.
Maelin’s luminous figure turns fully toward Almira. The hollow within her radiance deepens, and the chamber’s living light bends inward around it.
Seren Arcal
She is repeating the opening gesture. Almira, the record is changing beneath us, not merely showing another memory.
Maelin raises one hand and completes the measured turn that opened the amber rings. Beneath the dark hollow, a second pattern unfolds, finer and stranger than her first mark.
Seren Arcal
The lower pattern is replacing the record’s center. If it closes, whatever she preserved may be overwritten completely.
His markings flare around the arch, holding the collapsing return-sign for another breath. Maelin’s new pattern opens toward Almira, waiting beneath the threatened record.
✓ Quest Accepted
Preserve Maelin’s record from being overwritten