G'raha was about to knock on the door but stopped, not wanting to interrupt. Renoki was telling Rhunara about Amaurot. A city of ghosts, he called it, a desolate city populated not by people but by one lonely man and the shades of his friends. Shades that the man himself had created, just as he had created everything else within this monument to grief. A metropolis of which the foundations were not built of stone but of despair and regret.

G'raha paused. He had seen those same feelings glide across Renoki's features when he thought he was alone, the anguish that he refused to show to the Scions. He could hear the compassion in his voice as he told his sister about the losses the Ascian had faced.

G'raha closed his eyes for a moment. Perhaps Emet Selch was not the only one living with ghosts.

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Keep walking on, warrior of light,

Ever closer to the next fight.

Gods have been crushed beneath your hand,

Mighty rocks reduced to sand.

You stand tall, surrounded by friends

Willing to see this through to the bitter end.

Yet through this wasteland they disappear,

The end of the world is drawing near.

Your heart is heavy with every loss,

Questioning if this is worth the cost.

Yours is the path of destruction and pain,

You're not so sure you can do this again.

As each friend says their last goodbye,

Above you the black bird continues to fly.

Wearily on you make yourself tread

Onwards and upwards through the land of the dead.

You make it to the final stretch,

Across this land a path is etched.

A bridge of coloured crystal lies before you,

You steel yourself for what you must do.

But no longer do you walk alone,

For a number of shades have made themselves known.

They whisper encouragement as you walk before them,

The ghosts of those who have already fallen.

Each one of their words urges you forward,

Granting you strength as you press on towards

The greatest battle you've faced thus far

Which will determine the fate of this very Star.

Keep walking on, warrior of light.