Cadenza: Veritas
Chapter 7: It Is Done > Rewind
You press the rewind button. You can't make out anything that the camera feed is scrubbing backward to, but it stops rewinding at a frame where Grace is visible.
You press the play button, and see Grace approaching the camera. He begins to speak.
You press the play button, and see Grace approaching the camera. He begins to speak.
"Oh man, this is making me nervous. Is anyone watching out there? Bella had gone missing after she performed a few surgeries during the last few days of Masquerade. I was giving patient consultations. I should have kept an eye on her." His voice seems to crack, and his eyes are damp.
"I would leave this club, but E isn't here, either. This is bad... this is very bad... I implore you, I beg you, please help me! We closed the club a few days ago to evade the notice of the individual we only know as 'Master'. It seems he is an entity from another world, possibly the one where Bella and I come from. If not, he may have captured one of our kind and controlled it for himself. When I solved the last part of the anagram from an epiphany while a patient consulted me, these disappearances happened. I am desperate..."
The display fades to static, when a scream can be heard from the speakers.
"It is done," bellows a deep, guttural voice.
After a few minutes of silence, Bella is audible through the speakers.
"Grace! What have they done to you?"
Once again, no sound comes out of the speakers. You then hear sniffing and faint weeping seemingly coming from behind you. You turn around and see no one, but take notice of a bloodied hydrus necklace.
"I would leave this club, but E isn't here, either. This is bad... this is very bad... I implore you, I beg you, please help me! We closed the club a few days ago to evade the notice of the individual we only know as 'Master'. It seems he is an entity from another world, possibly the one where Bella and I come from. If not, he may have captured one of our kind and controlled it for himself. When I solved the last part of the anagram from an epiphany while a patient consulted me, these disappearances happened. I am desperate..."
The display fades to static, when a scream can be heard from the speakers.
"It is done," bellows a deep, guttural voice.
After a few minutes of silence, Bella is audible through the speakers.
"Grace! What have they done to you?"
Once again, no sound comes out of the speakers. You then hear sniffing and faint weeping seemingly coming from behind you. You turn around and see no one, but take notice of a bloodied hydrus necklace.
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