Fragments from the Vault #024: The Wayfarer

"... I had lost the path that does not stray." - Dante Alighieri

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Game: Gris

Location: The Chimera

More information: Gris | Gris Wiki | Fandom

Loss. Screen capture & edit: FetchQuester

AS YOU LAY ADRIFT IN THE ALCHEMY OF MORNING

AND QUESTION WHY I DID NOT SAVE YOU,

KNOW EVEN MY LOVE COULD NOT PLACATE THE BEAST -

JOSTLED FROM RELAPSE 

AS YOUR WILD CHARIOT RIPENED WITH RAGE.

"YOU DID ALL YOU COULD," THE FERRYMAN INTERVENES,

"WITH GOOD FAITH AND HONEST HEART -

IT IS NO MORE OUR CAUSE TO DIMINISH THE PAIN OF THE WORLD

THAN IT IS TO ABSOLVE THE DEBTS OF THOSE WHO'VE BEEN WRONGED,

SWAYING THEM TO THE GOOD WHICH PREVAILS.

THAT, STAR-SAILOR, IS THEIR JOURNEY."

AND THOUGH MY HEART IS LONG IN THE TOOTH

AND THIS HOUSE IS HOLLOWED OUT TO THE FRINGES,

I AM UNBURDENED -

AND THIS RADIANT MANIFOLD UNFURLS ONCE AGAIN.

Beacon. Screen capture & edit: FetchQuester

Endings. Screen capture & edit: FetchQuester

- Lucy A.

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Sources: 

Gris (Nomada Studio/Devolver Digital); fandom.com

*Dedicated to Melissa, my lighthouse, with special thanks to Maria Popova for her discovery of "radiant manifold" and PoeRem for her luminous thought.