Penance.

At the De Rune Estate, Amicia and Lucas discovered that the Macula, Hugo and the rats are closely intertwined. When they returned to Chateau d'Ombrage, Amicia had Hugo drink the elixir that their mother had started making, which Lucas managed to finish. It will let the young carrier of the Macula pass the first threshold safely.

Melie woke Amicia up to say Rodric beat Arthur at the sling and the whole crowd stopped when Amicia asked if they saw Hugo. All of them started searching for the kid and then Amicia notice the pendant of Hugo on the tree was missing and she understood Hugo was gone.

Amicia started looking for Hugo and she fell somewhere and became unconscious. She found herself in the wood later and she started running again for her brother.

I suddenly reached a village from the wood which looked like magical where Amicia kept shouting and asking if anyone saw any child out here. That's when I met Clervie there, the old lady who helped us before.

Clervie opened a door for me as Amicia asked her to cause she needs to find her brother. That lead me to Laurentius who died in front of me and now he looks so well.

It was Laurentius's house door that I opened after hearing Hugo talking from inside but it lead me to Amicia's home and her mother was there also and she was saying that Hugo left Amicia cause she hid the truth from him about their mother being alive.

I was already sure that Amicia was dreaming all these things.

Beatrice was not letting Amicia get to Hugo at first but later she let her and Hugo was complaining that Amicia didn't tell him their mom was alive and that's why he left. Its all in Amicia's mind so she was seeing these dreams. Hugo pushed Amicia and she got unconscious again.

Now this time I heard Hugo screaming and asking someone to let him go. I found he was caged by some guards there. After taking the guards down, I freed Hugo and the kid hugged his sister and it looked like he was not mad anymore.

Amicia asked why Hugo ran off like that and he replied he heard his mummy. Now it looked real for their acts and when they were getting back to the castle, Hugo was hearing his mummy again and he started running towards the woods.

I started running after him when Amicia kept asking Hugo to stop as everything started becoming darker and they reached their home again. Hugo ran into a big hole there saying his mother is in there and Amicia just kept running after him and kept asking him to stop.

The hole looked like rats house at first but then I noticed bodies of guards and other peoples and some of them were waving their hands and asking me to stay with them saying I'm one of them now. The guards were the ones that Amicia killed herself and she was listening to them in her nightmares.

I kept moving forward and I noticed Hugo reached Nicholas and there were rats all around them. I kept walking towards the sea of the rats so I can get to Hugo when Amicia kept asking Hugo to run and then Nicholas took Hugo away to meet his mother and the rats took Amicia in.

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That's all for now. I'll write about more of this story again soon. Be safe till we meet again.
Au revoir/Goodbye.

^{All the screenshots are my take from my play using the in-game photo mode and I tried canva to edit the thumbnail.}