[ Three arrows. A bowstring pulls tight, then lets loose. Three arrows whistle cuttingly through the air. A sound.
(Four arrows, and it ends. A fifth, and everything ends.)
This isn't real, Pyrrha knows that. At least, she thinks she knows that. ViViD's cruelties are someone's handmade effort, faceless programmers in CERES's chairs, showing them horrors while their souls slowly convert to immaterial energy. Maybe the system is sophisticated enough that this is little more than a generated roulette, numbers spinning and colliding in an unreal harmony. Torturing them is little more than an incidental side effect. Either way, it's not real.
Amber, in the real world, not this computer generated clone, is already dead.
(—would the sixth arrow be aimed at Jaune?)
This is entirely symbolic, a retreading of sins neither of them committed. It breaks something lose in Pyrrha regardless, ushering out a devastation so vast that the rational part of herself locked it away months ago in an attempt just to live again. She doesn't even hear the aggrieved cry that leaves her mouth, vision going briefly white as it becomes clear why you should never put a powerful magnet inside a computer... ]
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(Four arrows, and it ends. A fifth, and everything ends.)
This isn't real, Pyrrha knows that. At least, she thinks she knows that. ViViD's cruelties are someone's handmade effort, faceless programmers in CERES's chairs, showing them horrors while their souls slowly convert to immaterial energy. Maybe the system is sophisticated enough that this is little more than a generated roulette, numbers spinning and colliding in an unreal harmony. Torturing them is little more than an incidental side effect. Either way, it's not real.
Amber, in the real world, not this computer generated clone, is already dead.
(—would the sixth arrow be aimed at Jaune?)
This is entirely symbolic, a retreading of sins neither of them committed. It breaks something lose in Pyrrha regardless, ushering out a devastation so vast that the rational part of herself locked it away months ago in an attempt just to live again. She doesn't even hear the aggrieved cry that leaves her mouth, vision going briefly white as it becomes clear why you should never put a powerful magnet inside a computer... ]