The chamber groans as another mirror splits. Violet light spills through the new fault lines, crawling over the floor like living ink. Ysren stands amid the shards, steady, waiting.
Ysren
The seal is failing because it knows you. If you hide, the chamber breaks open blind.
The brightest fracture widens. In its glass, Xem sees not his face, but a storm of gold, purple, and red light pressing from within him, eager and terrible.
Ysren
Take it back into yourself, or cast it loose. Either choice ends the prison.
Xem
...
Xem steps to the broken mirror. The shards tremble, as if recognizing him. The violet glow rises around his hands, and the chamber holds its breath for his answer.
✓ Quest Accepted
Accept the storm of power inside himself
“Take in the all power”
SUCCESS (Great Willpower, rolled +1)
Violet fire races over Xem’s skin and vanishes inside him, swallowed instead of spilling. The mirror’s shriek dies into a trembling hum as the storm condenses behind his ribs.
Xem
It fits. The power is his.
Across the chamber, the fractured glass goes dim in patches, as if something hungry has been denied. Ysren lowers their hand, watching Xem with wary relief.
Ysren
So. You take it whole. Good. Do not let it take shape outside you.
A pulse answers from within Xem, heavy and bright, and the nearest shards sing against the stone. In their reflections, his eyes flash with a brief, impossible gold.
Ysren
The chamber feels it now. What do you call up from that storm, Xem?
Quest Complete
Accept the storm of power inside himself