I’M ALL YOURS

[Scene: Mistlands — One Week Later]

FX: Hollow wind blowing through dead trees. The sound of leaves rustling, but no footsteps. 🌫️🍂

[Visual: Elara walks alone through a forest that shouldn't exist — trees petrified into obsidian, sky a permanent twilight gray. The sun doesn't rise here.]

She carries no map. Just the soulblade on her back and a letter burned into her memory:

"You are the last anchor. The Hollow King is waking."

[Elara] (quietly):

"Keep moving. No fear."

Elara (thinking):

"The Forge made me endure worse. But this place… it's not pain. It's emptiness."

[FX: Faint whispering — like breath behind her ear.]

"You're walking the same road she did…"

Elara freezes. Draws her blade halfway.

[Elara]:

"Who's there?"

No answer.

Only mist.

[Scene: Flash Cut – Elara's memory briefly glitches — she sees a woman's hand bleeding over the same black stone. But it's not her hand.]

[FX: THUMP — Her head pounds, like her heartbeat isn't hers.]

[Elara stumbles, catches a tree to steady herself.]

[Elara] (gasping):

"Not… not again…"

[Voice returns — now clearer, female, broken]:

"You're too late. He's already inside the world."

[Elara]:

"Who are you?"

Voice: "The one before you. The first to be Soulforged… and the first to fall."

[Visual: In front of Elara appears a phantom — a girl no older than 19, wearing the same Soulbrand on her collarbone. Her eyes are burnt out. Her skin is gray like faded ink.]

[Phantom Girl]:

"My name was Ilyra. I was forged before you. For the same purpose: serve the master. Obey the throne. Silence the Hollow King."

[Elara] (staggered):

"…You were real?"

[Ilyra]:

"Yes. And I failed. I said yes when I should've said no. I became his voice — the Hollow King's echo."

[Scene Shift: Elara's mindscape — she falls unconscious mid-step. The world around her fades into a mirrored memory chamber.]

FX: Shattering sound — like a soul cracking 🪞💔

[Visual: Elara watches herself sitting at a table, chained, Lucien smiling across from her — only his face morphs into the Hollow King's: faceless, crowned with silent bells.]

[Voice of the Hollow King — deep, ancient, melodic]:

"You call yourself free. But freedom is a wound that never heals."

"Come to me, little echo. Be whole. Be quiet."

[Elara (in the vision)]:

"No."

FX: WHOOM — she shatters the illusion with a scream and a flash of light from her soulblade.

[Scene: Elara wakes up in a ring of black flame — burning without heat.]

[Ilyra (the phantom)]:

"I couldn't resist him. But you… you broke the Crown."

[Elara (panting, rising to her feet)]:

"I don't want to be anyone's echo."

[Ilyra]:

"Then listen. There's a place ahead. A temple buried in roots. The Hollow King speaks from there. That's where I fell. That's where you begin."

[Elara] (eyes narrowing):

"Then I'll walk into the same fire… and finish what you couldn't."

[Ilyra begins to fade, her voice softening]:

"If you hear your own voice saying things you don't believe… run."

FX: WHOOSH — the mist swallows her ghost.

[Scene: Elara left alone again — but the blade on her back is glowing faintly, like it remembers the other Soulforged.]

Elara (thinking):

"How many came before me? How many failed?"

"And how many echoes am I still carrying?"

She grips the blade.

[Elara] (softly):

"One more step."

[Final Image: She walks toward the dead horizon. Behind her, far in the trees, a shadow watches silently — cloaked, breathing — Kaelith.]

FX: A distant bell rings — a sound not heard in centuries. 🛎️

⚔️ TO BE CONTINUED…