Scene: Yuki's room. Dim light. Cassette shards lie scattered across his desk like broken stars. The cracked Ember shard pulses faintly beside them. He is not sleeping. He is syncing
> Yuki's thoughts
Every time I close my eyes
I go deeper
And it gets harder to come back
He blinks
And he is no longer in his room
Scene shift: The Dreamfield
A place made of half-memories
Floating staircases
Locked doors in the sky
Children laughing from empty swings
Rain that falls upward
Yuki stands barefoot on a surface made of glass
Underneath
A memory plays on loop
His mother singing
He steps forward
The glass ripples
And the voice fades
> Yuki
Show me what I forgot
All of it
A door appears in front of him
Painted red
No handle
Only one word written in chalk
Remember
He places his hand on it
It burns cold
And opens inward
Inside is a room filled with smoke
And in the center
A chair
Someone sits in it
His mother
> Mother
You should not be here yet
This part of you is still sleeping
> Yuki
I need to know what happened
The Ember
The fire
Why me
She does not answer
Instead
She points behind him
Yuki turns
And the room melts
Scene cut: A battlefield
The sky is broken
Chunks of shattered constellations hover in midair
Ember beasts crawl from the cracks
Yuki finds himself holding something
A weapon
Not physical
A shape made from his memory
It pulses
Flickers
He swings it
One beast vanishes into smoke
A voice calls from above
Kairi
She is falling
Trapped inside a rotating memory cube
Each face of it shows her dying in a different way
> Kairi
Yuki
Snap out of it
This is not yours
This is not real
He leaps upward
The weapon extends
Becomes a bridge
He grabs her hand
Pulls her out
The cube shatters
All the false deaths vanish
She hits the ground beside him
Breathing hard
> Kairi
You really dove deep this time
Almost lost your core
What were you looking for
> Yuki
Truth
About the Ember
About me
About her
Kairi stands
Looks around at the fading Dreamfield
> Kairi
Then you better wake up
Because they just entered your real one
Scene snap: Yuki opens his eyes in the real world
His room is shaking
Walls flicker
The Ember shard is glowing too bright
A masked figure is standing in the corner
No footsteps
Just there
Watching
> Masked intruder
You went too far
The Archive knows now
You are marked
Yuki stands slowly
Not afraid
Not anymore
> Yuki
Then let it come
I am done running