The deepest main chamber of the ruins smelled the same as always. Ancient stone and the residual energy of the statues with their reinserted hearts, which now made the entire structure glow in a way that had no equivalent in standard crystal architecture.
The two crystallized figures in their positions were exactly as they had been on every previous visit, with the difference that this time Ren hadn't come to just practice mapping or evaluate.
He had come to attempt something larger.
That was what he had decided while walking here, with a certainty that had started developing cracks now that the chamber was in front of him and the two figures were in it and the width between the theory of what he could do and the practice of actually doing it had become so short.
He had to try if he ever wanted to resolve those deeper problems.
'But if I manage to bring them back,' he thought, 'it might end being something bad regardless...'
