FUTILE ATTEMPT

“HA!” Taraheem mocks you.

“You thought it would be that easy?”

Taraheem quickly reacts by violently wrapping the lock and chain around your neck and begins to strangle you.

Harashnu fearfully exclaims within your mind, “I cannot dwell down here with you any longer! I am so sorry but I must depart!”

The portion of Light energy that Harashnu melded within you, now separates and retreats.

You are left alone being strangled, your whole existence flashing before your eyes.

Something else very strange is occurring though... The more you are strangled, the more your thoughts are becoming one with Taraheem’s.

You are suddenly able to scan Taraheem’s mind. In so doing you are shocked to find out that the person who looked identical to you, the one who was ejected from the Shadow earlier and tried to save you from getting pulled into the Shadow, they… were your alternate self! Or in other words… it was YOU, the alternate version of you who chose the Shadow Path at the beginning of all of this, instead of the Light Path.

“Yes, your alternate self was just as pathetic as you are!” Laughs Taraheem in your mind. “They entered here before you and managed to escape with a portion of my Shadow energy melded within them… but then YOU ruined everything by rescuing them when you opened my Shadow Path door.” Taraheem scoffs, “They’re likely off to find that weak Harashnu in the Light by now, along with that portion of MY Shadow energy.”

As you continue to be choked by Taraheem, everything is beginning to go darker than you ever imagined possible. Just as you start to realize you might not ever take another breath of air again, you hear more music in the distance: