[ Less intimate, yes, but it's a grim topic all the same. How could it not be in a nightmare such as this one? ]

I never expected we could face enemies more unnatural or monstrous than Solon and those aligned with him. Yet even they were... tangible. A threat we could search out and seek to eliminate.

[ A goal which, in the weeks following Remire, had nearly consumed him. Eating, sleeping, training... All mere motions he had gone through in the hopes that the future would mean finding those fiends and enacting justice upon them. A desire yet to be realized. In his time, at least.

His pace increases, unintentionally. As though an extra step or two would be enough to outrun the horrors of their past and present. ]

The same cannot be said of the forces aligned against us here.

[ He wishes, not for the first time, that the professor was present alongside them. ]