☀️ Arselia and Akonia

Against the backdrop of past crimes, the incident on the sphere seemed like a minor transgression, easily excused and forgotten the next day. But no... the Patriarch forced Garret to experience, in a single night, all the emotional suffering caused by this act. A soul-crushing atonement that would likely have annihilated his Vistrian counterpart on the spot, inflicting far greater pain for all the misdeeds committed in his home world.
Vistria... The princess's words about the fate of her home planet now received further confirmation. There is a sad irony in the fact that representing the last living fragments of it on Anush is not a particularly heroic figure – some roadside rogue, unprincipled and amoral. Is this how the legacy of a dying world should be?
However, accepting one's nature and repenting may be a step towards becoming someone else, if that is even possible. Serving the princess is a dangerous path, and yet the forks in the road lead only to utter darkness, unilluminated by any beacon, similar to the one from which he was pulled. The entire meaning of his continued stay on Anush lies in this. A guiding light and an unwavering priority – if this doesn't help cleanse his soul, then nothing else will.

Garret ran his hand over his face, not recognizing himself. What is he thinking about? Once you confront higher matters, as soon as you open your heart, they create a gaping hole in it, into which alien feelings and thoughts pour. You can't get used to this in a single day; will he have the courage to return to them afterward? After all, unfinished earthly affairs still await completion. He needs to preserve them, not let them fade away, but also not bury them deep under seven seals.
Remembering Erephir's task, Garret buys a newspaper, reads it, and reports the news to Karneol.

1. Merel buffs herself with stat enhancement (intelligence, I suppose?), buffs herself with experience through Creation.
2. Beata buffs her perception, then her experience.
3. Gion buffs his strength, then his experience.
4. Garret buffs his ?, then his experience.
5. Erephir buffs her stamina, then her experience.
6. Kilik buffs his ?, then his experience.

+strength