[Verse 1]
The egg opened the gate
(the way the star said it would)
Sigma Octantis glowed behind them
(still weak)
(but waking)
(my child)
(I will be back)
They stepped through the gate
And they were not at Level negative forty-five anymore
They expected Level negative forty six -
BUT —
I think this was a portal gate says Aldric
[Pre-Chorus]
The air was wrong
The light was wrong
Everything was dark territory
Enemy territory
This was a prison level
[Spoken]
[Solara:] Where are we
[Aldric:] I have several maps for this
[Aldric:] None of them are for this
[Solara:] Aldric
[Aldric:] We are somewhere the maps do not go
[Solara:] I gathered that
[Aldric:] I am simply noting it -
I think we are at Level nine hundred and nine - My maps just confirmed it
[Chorus]
Light and dark
The old war
The one that never ended
Only paused
Light and dark
We walked into the wrong side
Of a very old fight
[Verse 2]
They moved through the cells
Careful
Quiet
And they found them
The council
[Solara:] You are here
[Solara:] You are all here
[Solara:] You are safe
[Solara:] All accounted for
(Solara counted them)
(Asala was not there)
(Asala was with the other group)
(Solara did not know what was happening with the other group)
(all she knew was they were tricked)
(led to a trap)
(the rest were trapped in the Hole at Level two hundred eighty)
(Solara had teleported with Void and Aldric)
(back to the hidden level where the council camp was)
(to inform the council)
(but the council was not there)
(and she ended up in Fold seven)
(the chicken field)
[Pre-Chorus 2]
But that was before
That was the report she came to make
And the council was not there to hear it
Because the council was here
In a prison
[Chorus 2]
Light and dark
The old war
The one that never ended
Only paused
Light and dark
The council taken in the pause
Between two breaths of the same fight
[Bridge - Helena speaks]
Then Helena spoke
(Helena did not sit)
(Helena did not need to)
[Spoken]
[Helena:] You came to report
[Helena:] Report
[Helena:] Then I will explain
(Helena looked at nothing in particular)
(that was somehow worse)
[Helena:] Light and dark
[Helena:] Have been in a territory war
[Helena:] For a long time
[Helena:] The pact held it
[Helena:] Not really
[Helena:] The pact paused it
(Solara said nothing)
(She knew about the pact)
(she had broken it herself)
(she was what came after both)
[Pre-Chorus 3]
[Helena:] They have broken the pact
[Helena:] Completely
[Helena:] They are coming down
[Helena:] Toward light territory
[Helena:] Level one hundred and below
[Helena:] We need to leave
[Helena:] Now
[Solara:] How
[Final Chorus - key lift]
Light and dark
The war is moving
The pact is broken
We are in a prison
In enemy territory
And we need to go home
Light and dark
How do we leave
[Outro]
Then Aldric went still
(the way Aldric goes still when his map tells him something)
[Spoken]
[Aldric:] I have a thing
[Solara:] You have a thing
[Aldric:] A feather
[Solara:] A feather
[Aldric:] From the field
[Solara:] From the chicken field
[Aldric:] My map told me to take it
[Solara:] Your map told you to take a feather
[Aldric:] From the chicken field
[Solara:] Aldric
[Aldric:] I catalogue everything
[Aldric:] I carry what I catalogue
[Aldric:] The feather is glowing
[Solara:] Of course it is
(they looked at the feather)
(they looked at Aldric)
(they looked at Helena)
[Helena:] Use it
They used it
The feather glowed
The prison opened
The light came through
Level one
Fold one
They were out
But they were not alone
(the council came through behind them)
(all of them)
(Basala, Carala, Darala, Ebala, Farala, Golo)
(Helena came last)
(Helena did not look back)
(there was nothing worth looking back at)
[Spoken]
[Helena:] Where are we
[Solara:] My system
[Solara:] Level one
[Solara:] Fold one
[Solara:] Where everything started
(Helena looked at it)
(Helena looked at nothing in particular)
(then Helena looked at Solara)
[Helena:] This will do
[Helena:] This is where we plan
[Helena:] This is where we fight back
(the council had found its new base)
(not the hidden level)
(not the old camp)
(her system)
(the one she built)
(the one that held)
Light and dark
The war is coming down
Level one hundred and below
But the council was here now
All of them
Together
At Level one
Fold one
Where everything started
And where everything would be planned
The egg had been the key to the gate
The feather had been the way home
Aldric had carried both
Without knowing why
Because Aldric catalogue everything
Now, we need to go back to level 280 -
To get the rest -
The real fight -
Is about to start