Gladio teaches Noct the hard way that kidnapping is always a potential threat when you're a public figure with royal blood. An uncomfortable thought for his three friends, an even more uncomfortable experience for Noct...Chapter 16!

Noctis awakes from his trial in Altissa to find his fiancée dead and his vision gone. Now weeks later, with dampened spirits, the group boards the train headed for Cartanica. Inspired by fanart by Doomhearld. An AU in which Noctis is blinded instead.