[quote=@Tatterdemalion][b]Adila![/b]

The snake-wife is smashing through chamber after chamber, going down, down, downwards -- away from Dandy. The bog is spilling out all around you, dank and filthy water, but there's no way it's going to drain fast enough to save Dandy. She's all alone up there, stuck at the bottom of a slowly-draining swamp, and [i]bad girl! Bad! You left her![/i]

The snake-wife is ignoring you, but as she wriggles along, her throat is forcing you down deeper. It's taking all your strength just to stay where you are, running the Red Queen's Race with all your might, and [i]bad girl! Bad! You left her![/i]

[i]You are the watchdog, the Hound of Devilhome! You protect! Bad girl![/i][/quote]

That was the last effort of will she had. The last surge of willpower and heroism. There's no way out, no way forwards, no way to escape, nothing to do but feel the terrible weight of her failure. She struggles for as long as she can but the simple reality of the moment is that she [i]is [/i]a bad girl. This is the consequence of that. All her unkindnesses are here with her as she falls away into the black.

[Get Away with despair:[s] 6[/s], 1, 1 -1 = 1. Adila falls to the Curse.]