How long has she been kept here ? Where was she ? Who was she ? What was her...Louise...her name was Louise. She could remember it.
She tried to focus, to find more memories deep inside her mind...but only found her name...what is a name ? The concept of it seemed foreign to her and yet, she felt it was important.
Louise, her name, whatever a name was supposed to be, was all she knew and remembered from whatever exist beyond this place. The rest have been erased by the voices...
"Failsafe ? Can you hear me ?"
"Of course my friend ! But be careful because soon you will be going too deep inside Nessus for me to reach for you !" Answered a sweet female voice in his radio.
"Don't worry about me milady. I'll be fine."
Talking with Failsafe was a male exo warlock wearing the refulgent revelery robes and boots with the witcher's helmet, the royal favor bond and the contraverse hold gauntlets with the tyrian gloves ornament. All fives pieces tinded with the amethyst veil shader.
He was armed with a seventh seraphim 180 rpm revolver, a dead man's tale 120 rpm lever action exotic scout rifle with remembrance ornament and a Vexcalibur exotic glaive with the galatine protocol ornament.
His mission was simple on paper : locate and study a wierd void light signature inside Nessus core. But for whatever reason this place was filled with powerful vex units.
"I'm getting tired of this..." Said the guardian after the twelvth gatekeeper. "I really hope this light signature is the echo we're looking for."
Louise's head was killing her. The voices cried without interruption and they were getting louder too. What was happening ? Was it the tremors ? Wait what is a tremor again ?
"What the..."
After long minutes of intense fighting he found himself in front of...a girl ? Well it looked like a girl at least. She had long pink hair and pink yes and she had the face of a cute young girl but the rest of her body... She had a petite figure, adding to her youngful look but her arms, legs and the left side of her torso were made of the same cooper colored material as other vex goblins. She was held above the ground by multiple tubes injecting and extracting radiolaria.
"...What...are...you...?" She asked in...French ?
Why would a vex thing speak French ? Well then let's humor her and converse in French too, good thing he studied the old pre-Colapse languages.
"I should be the one to ask that question. I mean you're not human but not a vex either."
"Human ? Vex ? I...don't...know..."
"So you don't know what you are ?"
"Louise...I am...Louise... Voices...took...the rest..."
"Voices ? What voices ?" He asked, afraid to know the answer.
"Voices...inside...me...voices...inside...here..."
"The vex..." He took out his Ghost. "Try to free her. And if you can find any files linked to this...whatever this is supposed to be for."
That thing could speak. It was not a voice and yet it could speak. It even summoned a little thing inside it's hand. Summoned...that concept...it felt...close.
Lost in her mind, she didn't sense herself falling, hitting the ground...and loosing consciousness.
"So... Let me get this straight. The void light signature, so powerful that all of the system felt it, is a vex experiment ?"
The lightbearer sighed at Zavala's hologram. "Not really... From what my Ghost managed to extract and decrypt, she is naturally producing pure void light. The Vex simply tried to convert her, like they did with Kabr, hoping to understand the paracausality and to use it."
"Was it a success ?" Ikora asked, worried.
"No. They did manage to transform most of her body, including her heart, into machinery but...her light was purging the radiolaria. It caused them to continuously pump fresh vex milk into her system in hope to break this resistance...with no success."
"And the girl ? Is she safe now ?" Demanded Crow. "She needs our help."
"What the vex did, can't be undone. Whoever she was... She's long gone..." Ikora answered mournfully. "I know it might be cruel but...there is no need to keep her suffering."
"Wait ! Hold on a second !" Called the guardian. "While it's true that most of her mind and identity is gone, she's still in here. She even said her name. I want eliksni splicers to try to look inside her. Maybe there is something else to recover."
Pain. Her head was in pain. Something was looking inside, searching. Images flashed before her : a castle, a bald man, a young girl with purple hair, a young woman with pink hair with animals...
"AHHHH !" She opened her eyes. What happened ? Where was she ? The voices were silent. What happened to the voices ?
"Louise ?" That voice...it was the thing that spoke to her. She looked in it's direction.
"Where...am...I...?"
"A safe place. How do you feel ?"
Louise tilted her head in confusion. "Feel ?"
"Are you in pain ?"
She shook her head. He seemed...relieved ? Wait...she knew what it meant !
"I...know..." Vex milk tears rolled on her cheeks. "I...know...words..."
"The splicers managed to gather some information lost in your altered brain. No memories or personal knowledge but..."
"Thank...you...!" She didn't know what a splicer was but his explication was enough for Louise. In a sudden burst of happiness, she hugged him tight.
He didn't know what to do. In his long life he had a lot of friends and partners but...this was different, it felt different. Something started to rise inside his chest. She was alone, her mind was in pieces. She needed someone to teach her, to help her.
"Don't worry Louise. From now on, I'll take care of you." He returned the embrace, patting her head in the process. "You'll never suffer ever again. I swear it on the Traveler."