"Papapa... you can do it."
He stopped and his body went still. The smile faded just slightly at the edges as the voice settled into him. It was small and soft and it didn't belong in a place like this. He blinked.
"Huh."
Then another voice came.
"Kael... you can do it."
Emilia.
He recognized her immediately and something in his chest moved in a way it hadn't a moment ago.
"Brat, don't you dare fail."
Ramos..
"Kael."
"Lord."
"Leonard. Go for it."
The voices came one after another like waves. Countless of them, rushing into his mind from somewhere far away and close at the same time. Each one carried weight. Each one carried a feeling.
He stood there and listened and the craziness inside him didn't disappear but it stopped spreading. The voices held it in place.
And then the power came.
