"I'm not ordering anyone in," he said. "This one's a choice."
"You're going," Azelis said, not a question.
"Yeah."
"Then so are we," Jibril said, already checking her Razewater reserves. "Idiot. Like we'd let you walk into something like that alone."
Yuna simply nodded, jaw set, Emberlune's tails flattening low against her legs in quiet apprehension that didn't stop her from stepping forward anyway.
Nyxareth watched the four of them for a long moment, something almost like surprise flickering across their starlit features.
"Very well," they finally said, and the dark, sealed section of the map unfolded fully, a narrow path bleeding into existence directly beneath their feet. "The Sundered Vault. Go quickly, and do not stop moving. I will be watching, though I can offer nothing more than that from here."
*
