Event Update: Specter's Final Hope
Posted on July 29, 2025--
It feels terribly strange, doesn't it.
After all that time spent chasing Specter down, now I'm just… standing here. Waiting for her to come to me…
Nicholas was cautiously hopeful, Estella was skeptical, Piper was excited, and Lycus was curious… Oh dear, I must have sounded so silly! But all that I could say to reassure my family was that I felt certain, somehow, that Specter’s next destination would be here in Hope, and that I should be the one to wait here and meet her. With the same certainty that I knew I needed to lead my fellow Kith to Hope University and seek out Alliances, or pursue the Stagehands to break the Narrator’s cruel hold, or follow the prophetic Voices in the Mist to seek out the Golden Colosseum during the first Snarl attack… even my most recent conviction from just a few weeks ago that we should visit the Coral Reef, just in time to find a clue to Specter’s whereabouts…
It hasn’t always made sense, and yet… I've learned over the years to trust this sort of instinct.
And so, if I am right…
Are you ready?
We searched, as you asked…
She approaches, as you knew.
Thank you, little ones. I’m ready. Lead me to her.
…
Sigh… This road normally brings me so much joy. Treading these familiar, comforting steps, shepherding brand-new Kith out of the Tatters… The same path every day. Not to mention the same path that I once walked, on the wonderful day that I first brought all the Kith to Hope!
Keep going. You're almost there!
You’re at the edge of it all…
Here, at the cusp of the Tatters…
How well I remember my first moment of consciousness, as we all emerged from the Tatters right here… Oh my, I knew so little at the time, naïve as I was! Yet it felt so right, even then, to be leading the other Kith in my wake…
Just as now it feels right to be following them.…
This is as far as she could go, before her whole chassis began to fall to pieces…
This is where we found her, broken and alone…
And asking for you, Iris. Asking for you…
