D3 Pull Away
Mira felt a sudden rush of fear pump adrenaline through her veins, and with a sense of panic, she pulled away from the wall before it could suck her in. She stumbled back and looked at her hand, which to her relief was whole and unchanged.
But when she looked back at the wall, Duke was still a shadow. He pounded against the wall, but he seemed trapped. The sound of cold laughter filled the room, and Mira turned around to see that the sorceress had returned.
"I love it when fear gets the better of you mortals," she said. "It's so entertaining to watch you abandon your friends in the attempt to save yourselves."
"No, that's not what I meant to do," Mira protested, and she tried to move back to the wall, but something prevented her.
Looking down, Mira saw a coil of red magic binding her ankle to the leg of the table. And when she turned her gaze back to the wall, she saw the dark spaces on the wall grow larger and start to surround Duke. The sorceress was manipulating them with her hands.
"No, stop!" Mira cried. "Duke!"
But there was nowhere for him to go. The darkness spilled over the wall and swallowed up his shadow. Then the firelight began to burn it away again, but Duke's shadow was gone.
"What have you done?" Mira demanded as she turned back to the sorceress.
"Don't worry. He's not gone," Alastrid said calmly.
She held up a spherical red crystal, and Mira saw a dark shape moving inside of it as if trying to escape.
"You confirmed his fears, and now he's my prisoner without any hope of escape," she boasted.
"No, you can't do this!" Mira protested.
"I can, because you had the chance to help this fool… and you failed."
With a wave of her magic, the sorceress disappeared again, but the magic binding her in place did not release her. And Mira glanced at the other ducks who were still imprisoned in their cursed forms.
She couldn't help but think about how disappointed they would be when they awoke and learned she had failed them.
Ending #3 – You were able to help Mira save Tanya and Grin, but all of the other ducks are still trapped, especially Duke.
Each night Mallory, Nosedive, and Wildwing are still cursed. And Mira is bound by magic to the dining hall as a reminder of her failure to save Duke.
With Mira trapped as well, Tanya and Grin have tried to find their own way back to the magical castle. But in the process of searching, they stumbled into a different dimension and are caught up in a new struggle of their own. They have started to despair of ever finding their friends again.
If you want to try for a different ending, you still have choices. You can choose to go back to an earlier point in the story, when Mira wasn't trapped, and choose differently. Or the story can end here if you want.