??? (Round 3)

[foundationmods]

[Once the trial begins, all of the dead will feel themselves being lifted out of their bodies. For a short while, they are able to watch the proceedings, including their own bodies as they continue to move and act on their own. But eventually the area starts to grow dim, fading into an inky black nothingness.

Then glowing sakura petals will start to trail by. A path in the darkness, perhaps?

If the dead follow the petals to their source, they will eventually find an enormous sakura tree, it's large branches hanging over the area and providing shelter from the darkness outside. Here, under the sakura tree's branches, the dead will feel 'whole' again. It is as if this is where they need to be to be themselves, with no influences from the witch outside. And indeed, the very air feels heavy with magic, a single point of calm in the storm of the void.

And there, at the base of the tree, sits someone familiar.]

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[chaoscontrol]

[Shadow looks down, then back up. His face is serious -- but for the first time today, it is earnest]

I will do everything I can to protect those who yet live, and the innocent souls you've given refuge to here. I will not fail them again.

-- If only so I can kick you in the family jewels without a guilty conscience after this is all over!

[foundfate]

[Ugh, that gets a grimace.]

You already shot me, isn't that enough?

[chaoscontrol]

I will have my nad-kicking vengeance.

[and with that he... slides back down the tree]