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She promised to take away my pain, take away my nightmares.

I know what it is to believe. Through the forest, the path is clear and the fire waits for me.

Four names. Four trials. She tells me not to rush.

She tells me I must not fail.

She tells me I must not doubt what I dream of.

She says she has found the root of all evil— the source of the rot corroding the town.

Finally, she has come back to me, and she is happy.

Five names I have taken, but I feel no closer to the path.

She told me they must die. That it must be violent to open the gates.

She said to have faith in her. But I feel the pain of what I must do.

Struggling against the darkness, I feel its hooks pulling me deeper into the abyss.

I see a hideous thing, more shadow than form. It calls to me in my nightmares— 

I am seduced by its song.

— The Casting Of Frank Stone, trinket annotations