No, no, just you. When the Inquisition finds out there are cultists here, the Ægir will be their first target.
Thiago
I don't care what happens to the cultists, or even the rest of us... We've lived here too long. We don't know how to live anywhere else.
Thiago
But you're different. You've always wanted to see the world outside. You're young and talented.
Jordi
But, I... this is all so sudden.
Thiago
It's an opportunity for change, lad. Your last chance. Be brave.
Thiago
Even if you somehow survive the Inquisition's interrogation, all that's waiting for you here is a life spent in fear of the ocean and the Sea Terrors.
Thiago
If you leave, though, your fate will finally be in your own hands. Not stuck in that little chapel.
Thiago
That place is too small for you. You shouldn't just—
Jordi
But, I... It's so sudden.
Thiago
There's no time to hesitate, lad. You must be strong, like your parents and their parents before them.
Jordi
Did my parents really give their lives for Iberia?
Thiago
We don't have time for this. Come, we must pack.
Thiago
It's been so long since we've had a traveling trader stop by... all your clothes are so old. You can buy new ones so easily out there. All the more reason to leave, don't you think?
Jordi
But why would the Inquisition be looking for Ægir? Couldn't cultists just as well be Liberi or Feline?
Thiago
Ægir come from the sea, same as the monsters and the disaster.
Thiago
Wait... have you seen them?
Jordi
No, I... I mean, Uncle, you knew? You knew they were here?
Thiago
Yes... we all knew there was something to the rumors.
Jordi
Juan was one of them. He went into an empty warehouse to hide from the streets. He was hurt, and... he had no hostility towards me.
Thiago
Right, because you're Ægir. I know they've gone mad, that they're not normal.
Jordi
But why? ...Are you sheltering them?
Thiago
None of that matters anymore. You'll be leaving soon.
Jordi
No, I don't want to.
Thiago
What?
Jordi
I... I was born here in Gran Faro. If I run away just to hide from the Inquisition, I... I don't know.
Thiago
You what? Do you have any idea what you're saying?
Thiago
No Ægir has ever made it back in one piece after the Inquisition gets them! If you're LUCKY, you might return missing a few body parts, or maybe your sanity.
Thiago
Most simply disappear though. Some say they've been imprisoned, others that they've been executed. No one comes back! No one!
Thiago
The Inquisition will burn everything to the ground in their 'mercy,' before the monsters and cultists even get a chance. Nothing cleanses like fire!
Jordi
U-Uncle Thiago, calm down!
The angry old man sees in Jordi the shadow of himself, arriving in this land all those years ago, hoping to construct a new garden out of the ruins.
Decades have passed, and those who were once young are no longer so. Yet what have they built in Gran Faro? What has become of Iberia?
Their efforts have done nothing to change the tidings of fate, and the home that they put so much of their passion into now stands on the precipice of collapse.
A vast helplessness engulfs Thiago, like the dark clouds over the sea.
Thiago
No one...
Thiago
No one... no one has ever come back. Not Marin, not anyone else. Gran Faro is already burning. Be it the Inquisition or the monsters, there's no future for us here.
Jordi
Uncle Thiago...
Thiago
I'll never be able to face your parents if anything happens to you, Jordi.
Dream now, and may your sleep be full of nightmares.
Saint Carmen
Leave them to me, Kal'tsit. Soon enough, they will confess where their dark and dank schemes take root.
Kal'tsit
No doubt.
Alty
(Wow, the old man's with you, Doctor?)
Saint Carmen
You are... Alive Until Sunset. A rock band. I must admit I don't understand these new-fangled trends.
Alty
Have faith in the divinity of song then.
Saint Carmen
Iberia hasn't recorded a direct sighting of a Feranmut for centuries, much less an interaction. If your music represents your views on human society, then that would certainly pique my interest.
Alty
We haven't paid attention to that sort of thing since 'Deep Color in the Sea.' It's a topic that's all too familiar, you see.
Saint Carmen
Ha... I wonder, what music would you put to Iberia? The most surprising thing I've found at my age is how much still surprises me.
Saint Carmen
As we discussed, the Inquisition will prepare a means for you to travel to the Eye of Iberia as soon as possible, Kal'tsit.
Saint Carmen
You will eliminate any obstacles in your path.
Alty
...That Sea Terror. The one that's embedded in the guy.
Alty
There's the scent of an Ægir on it. A different scent though, one more like us. The scent of the sea.
'I'm an Ægir,' Jordi thinks. 'The sea is my home.'
'But how do I breathe down there? How did my ancestors live underwater?'
Questions pop into his head one after another, questions he had been curious about from a young age. But Thiago is Liberi, and cannot answer his questions.
The Ægir came from the ocean. Why would they drown in the ocean?
