Bartleby Opal, then, to empath, then white to what?

Aurelia Greater empath. To try to heal the emotional wounds.

Bartleby For the moment you are an empath, you feel crippling agony.

Bartleby As a greater empath, you can sense within her better, feel out her pain.

Bartleby She needs not just love, nor healing, but something more potent, more profound.

Aurelia What is more profound than love?

Bartleby She needs something truly sacred to her, something that runs deeper. She needs a Sacrifice.

Bartleby A life won't do, nor a mere relic.

Aurelia A Gift?

Bartleby Only an appropriate Gift, and none of Love are available.

Aurelia The Oboe is mastered to Love.

Bartleby But not a true Gift of Love.

Bartleby It doesn't have to be a Gift to heal her, but a Sacrifice of something potently Love-based or related, or of pure love...

Aurelia We've the songs, but how does one sacrifice a song?

Aurelia Aurelia has her relationships, but... if she could sacrifice those, again, how?

Bartleby You're not certain they'd be enough, anyway, but... Well, those latter, you have the ring...

Bartleby And, to cover all bases, she might also think that a Sacrifice of Beauty might somehow work

Aurelia She has nothing that could possibly match her love for Bartleby and Marilyna. The thought of sacrificing those makes her cold inside.

Aurelia To Bartleby alone: She requires Sacrifice.

Bartleby There's also her love of her mother, her aunts. The love she has for the band might be potent enough. Her love for the Emperess Marilyna, perhaps. Her faith, possibly.

Bartleby What Sacrifice may we give?

Aurelia Love.

Bartleby What do you mean?

• Aurelia sends a wordless impression of the sacrifice of emotion. No object we hold suffices...

Bartleby You feel him balk at the first and most obvious answer.

Bartleby Quietly, even through the Song, If we sacrifice Our Love, we go together, completely, leaving nothing left of us. The only thing stopping me from diving into that with you is our baby.

Aurelia We will... protect her still...

Bartleby You... know something?

• Aurelia is more terrified of the idea than she could possibly express, but she is unsure that anything else could suffice.

Aurelia Was Our Love Aurelia and Bartleby's for each other, or theirs for everything?

Bartleby He meant for each other, but views it as encompassing their entire beings. In other words, ceasing to be after making the Sacrifice

Bartleby The bracelets are confirming the binding of your souls.

Bartleby If one goes, the other does.

Aurelia The words of the gods will hold. My mother's protection, and that we found for her, and the chances we shaped for her

• Aurelia made a promise about Little Wing first, if there's time.
• Aurelia makes the sacrifice.