Even with their help, by nightfall she was still unconscious, even when the clock had struck midnight. Then again, that would be the time one is supposed to be asleep. I couldn't sleep however. I stayed up and watched over her, just like she once did for me. Every time I looked at her face, I could see her sweat going down her cheeks, like she was having a nightmare. If it were only possible for me to help her get out of it. The best thing I could come up with was holding her hand. They say comatose people can hear us talk, can feel our presence, so I hoped she would feel this into her dream as well, and know she's not alone.
A faint smile did appear every now and then, but only briefly each time. Like somebody doesn't want her to have happy thoughts. I looked around in the room, hoping I could find a solution of some kind. But the environment wasn't inspiring. Instead, it got frightening when I looked into a mirror in that room, and saw a face of a monstrous man. I looked around in the room, but saw nobody else. This confirmed everything I ever read about this town, it is indeed haunted. The thought alone made me shake. And doing this while still holding Talim's hand wouldn't work stimulating. So I let go. Suddenly I heard a crack in the hallway. I heard it before, but it was that night alone that I realized it might not be something physics related that caused the crack. I would look to see what it was, but I couldn't even get up.
I kept telling myself that I made it this far, and this is not the right time to chicken out. So I tried to convince myself. When I finally managed, I remembered that I've never read anything about a monstrous man to have ever been here. At least not to my knowledge. Thinking about it made me realize the monster looked a little like that Azure Knight Nightmare I've read so much about in the Soul Edge stories. It got me to look at our bags, where we kept all fragments we had collected.
The bags seemed to have something red glowing inside of them. It was weird to see them glowing that fiercely, they had never done that before. I looked inside the bags, and took out one fragment. I wondered why they would glow so bright. Because they are close to the sword? Most likely. So I took another one out. I pointed one fragment into my left direction, and the other into my right. The right one seemed to glow much brighter than the left one, so I looked through the window where it was pointing. To have an accurate view as to where the sword is, I held both fragments in front of me. The right one was still brighter, so I looked into that direction. I suddenly knew where to look for the sword. And suddenly, I also wished I hadn't joined Talim on this quest.
