I’M ALL YOURS

[Scene: The Temple Door – Mistlands Heart]

FX: Faint heartbeat… not hers. The door ripples as Elara's hand sinks into it, like warm tar. 🩸🫀

[Visual: Black roots spiral outward, forming an arch. The stone beneath her feet breathes, like a creature in slumber.]

[Elara] (quietly):

"This is wrong."

Elara (thinking):

"But I can't pull back. It's like it's… welcoming me."

[Scene: Inside – The Memory Labyrinth]

FX: WHOOSH — everything changes.

The world flips inside-out.

*[Visual: Elara finds herself in a glowing corridor made of mirrors — hundreds of reflections of herself stretch in every direction. But some of them… aren't her.]

One is younger. One is wounded. One is smiling — but has no eyes.

[Voice – Hollow King, soft, melodic, inside her head]:

"You've walked far, little soul. Let me carry the rest."

[Elara] (draws blade):

"I didn't come here to be carried."

Elara (thinking):

"It's trying to soothe me. Make me want to give up."

[The mirror wall ripples. A version of Elara steps out — dressed in royal robes, a golden crown on her head.]

[Crowned Elara]:

"You could rule. Lead the world without war."

[Elara] (shaking her head):

"I've seen where that path ends."

She slices the reflection in half.

FX: SHHHHRR—

It shatters into black butterflies.

[Second mirror: A little girl version of her appears, reaching out.]

[Child Elara]:

"You miss her. Your mother. Let me show you her again…"

[Elara flinches, then growls]:

"That's not mercy. That's manipulation."

[Scene Shift – The Core Chamber]

[Visual: A vast cathedral built upside-down — roots hang from the sky, and a heart-shaped crystal pulses on the ceiling. The center of the room is a mirror pool, still as glass.]

FX: Soft whispering echoes around her. Every whisper is in her voice.

"I'm tired."

"Let someone else decide."

"I just want peace."

[Voice – The Hollow King, more clearly now]:

"I am not your enemy. I am what comes after your pain."

"You fight so hard… when all you truly want is to rest."

[Elara kneels at the mirror pool. Her reflection begins to move… without her. It smiles. It speaks.]

[Mirror Elara]:

"I can carry the burden. I can be you. Let go."

[Elara (grits her teeth)]:

"I wasn't forged to survive. I was forged to resist."

Elara (thinking):

*"This isn't possession. It's seduction. It's trying to make me surrender by sounding like me."

[She raises her blade — it glows faintly, but flickers.]

[Elara]:

"Your voice is mine, but your will is not."

[FX: Light pulses from her blade — cutting through the air like a bell. All the mirrors crack. The temple shakes.]

[Hollow King – Voice warps]:

"You are not the first. You will not be the last."

"You cracked the crown… but you cannot kill what is already buried inside you."

[Scene: Temple Cracks Open]

FX: The roots recoil. Black water spills from the ceiling as the room distorts.

[Visual: The upside-down cathedral begins to invert — Elara starts falling upward. The soulblade stabs into a floating stone, catching her mid-fall.]

[Elara, shouting]:

"I am not yours!"

[Final Vision – A Shadow Within]

[Visual: In the swirl of distortion, Elara sees a shadow version of herself — no skin, no eyes, only chains where her heart should be.]

It smiles.

Shadow Elara:

"Then why do I know all your thoughts?"

[Scene: Outside – Temple Entrance]

FX: Kaelith watches from the trees as the temple trembles violently. The door begins to collapse into roots. Black steam hisses out like venom. 🌫️⚡

[Kaelith (alarmed)]:

"Elara…"

[Inside – Elara screams as the temple shatters around her. Just before she's consumed, she stabs the soulblade into her own chest, and everything explodes in white.]

✴️ Scene Ends — Silence.

⚔️ TO BE CONTINUED…