[The whole process of coming to those decisions had been a drama. Plenty of people had ways of gaining further information-- otherworldly dreams and visions within the nightmare, their own conversations with Ramona, the Dog Keeper, and the broken man they had come to learn was Roderick Sodder. Among those possibilities... ]
Ozpin held onto a relic he had received from Julia that he used to help him get information on how to release the both of us from our circumstances. He received two bits of information: release Cynthia so that she could attain her true calling, and preserve the Dog Keeper.
... That meant breaking Cynthia's egg, but nurturing the Dog Keeper's until the end.
[He fell quiet for a heartbeat that felt like eternity before continuing. That had been a chaotic time-- his leg was recently lost, Salem was in the midst of being corraled in the most brutal way possible, and the dream itself was fragmenting to a hollow husk of what it had been. ]
He and I reached the same conclusions. We thought that breaking Julia's egg would also release her... And breaking our own would similarly release us from the bindings of a God that abandoned my world.
... Ozpin died for this info, and he asked me to share it on the network. Ruby and I did-- and we hoped that he hadn't died for something that would hurt everyone.
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Do you really want all that?
[The whole process of coming to those decisions had been a drama. Plenty of people had ways of gaining further information-- otherworldly dreams and visions within the nightmare, their own conversations with Ramona, the Dog Keeper, and the broken man they had come to learn was Roderick Sodder. Among those possibilities... ]
Ozpin held onto a relic he had received from Julia that he used to help him get information on how to release the both of us from our circumstances. He received two bits of information: release Cynthia so that she could attain her true calling, and preserve the Dog Keeper.
... That meant breaking Cynthia's egg, but nurturing the Dog Keeper's until the end.
[He fell quiet for a heartbeat that felt like eternity before continuing. That had been a chaotic time-- his leg was recently lost, Salem was in the midst of being corraled in the most brutal way possible, and the dream itself was fragmenting to a hollow husk of what it had been. ]
He and I reached the same conclusions. We thought that breaking Julia's egg would also release her... And breaking our own would similarly release us from the bindings of a God that abandoned my world.
... Ozpin died for this info, and he asked me to share it on the network. Ruby and I did-- and we hoped that he hadn't died for something that would hurt everyone.