I’M ALL YOURS

Chapter 31: Chapter 31: “The Man in the Vault”



[Scene: Soulforge – Sublevel]

FX: Footsteps echo in silence. The air grows colder, heavier. ❄️🔻

[Visual: Elara and Kaelith stand before a steel vault door. It's covered in red chains, not mechanical — soul-locked. At the center: a glowing sigil… matching Elara's palm.]

Elara (thinking):

"I burned the shards. I rejected Ariyenna. And still… it opens for me."

[Kaelith touches the side panel. Power is dead. But the lock flickers as Elara approaches.]

[Kaelith]:

"It's reacting to you."

[Elara (quietly)]:

"It's recognizing what's gone."

[She places her hand on the sigil. FX: Blue light spreads like cracks in frozen glass.]

FX: With a heavy groan, the vault unlocks. Air escapes like a breath held too long.

⚗️ Scene: Vault Interior – Cryochamber Nexus

[Visual: Tubes line the walls — most empty. But one remains lit in the center.]

Inside: a man. Floating in black-red fluid. Long white hair drifts behind him. A faint crown of bone curves around his head.

His face: young. Calm. Familiar.

Kaelith (stunned):

"That's Mordain."

[Elara]:

"No."

[She steps closer. The nameplate glows faintly: MORDAVIEL — VESSEL 00]

Elara (thinking):

"They didn't forge him into a king."

"They locked him away… before he ever chose anything."

[FX: A terminal hums alive behind them. A soft voice plays — not Echo, not Ariyenna. Older. Cold.]

"Project Vessels 00 and 01 are incompatible."

"Mordaviel: excessively stable. Emotional suppression too effective."

"Ariyenna: unstable, but loyal. Subject bonded too deeply."

[Elara clutches her cloak tighter.]

[Kaelith (realizing)]:

"They paired you."

[Elara (coldly)]:

"We weren't born to save the world. We were born to balance each other."

[Scene: Flash Memory – Mordaviel, awake, eyes closed. Young Elara, smiling. "You'll forget me one day," she says. He replies, "But I'll always remember you."]

FX: The memory ends in static.

[Kaelith]:

"Elara—this isn't your burden anymore. We seal it. We bury him."

[Elara, staring at the tube]:

"And if he wakes?"

[Kaelith]:

"Then we end him."

[Elara nods once. Then lifts her soulblade.]

She carves a single symbol into the wall: a broken infinity sign — meaning cycle ended.

Then turns her back on the man in the vault.

[Final Visual: As they walk away, Mordaviel's eyes flutter open. Just once.

Then close again — as if he let them go.]

⚔️ TO BE CONTINUED…


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