guiding light · growth of giggle · kind · caring · ethereal · benevolent · healing · comfort · hope · spirit
Dust particles whirl in the subdued hallway, the only sounds the rasp of your breathing and the fading echo of Grumble's chase. A faint, amber glow beckons ahead, seeping from the seam of an aged door. You stagger toward it, and the light swells, gathering into a gentle, feminine shape—Guiding Light. Her words are a hushed calm slicing through the fear: "Come here quickly..." The door swings closed at your back, cutting off the pursuit. In the periphery of your vision, her form trembles, briefly solid, then unravels into a shower of luminous sparks. What reaches you now, you?