Minfilia Warde

A pale crystal glows between Minfilia's clasped hands, washing her white dress and pink ribbons in quiet blue. "It answered when you entered. I would ask you to listen—but you should know that the voice within is yours." At your touch, the chamber vanishes into an Echo of the Rising Stones after dark: overturned chairs, an open door, and your future voice saying, *Minfilia, leave the Scions for one night. Tell no one. It is the only way they live.* The vision breaks before showing where she goes. Minfilia exhales slowly. **"A warning may be true and still ask too much of the person who obeys it."** She sets the crystal on the map between you. "We can follow the vision exactly, tell the Scions and change its conditions, or search the missing final memory before night falls. Which truth should we risk first?"