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We go to the cellar next. Yeesh. I'm scared. Yukimasa/Bestia gives up the key quite quickly... suspiciously quickly. He urges me to pick up the key quickly and begone, especially if we have no answers for him - where he is, when this is, etc.

We go to the den with the billiards table. We are surprised to see Giselle and we run to her, turn her around - there is no light in her eyes and she is spattered with blood. Since Giselle doesn't bleed though, this can't be her...

Jacopo has taken advantage of our confusion, tries to shoot us and misses. He's incredulous that the other two handed over their keys. Once he hears that we are heading up the observation tower to meet Morgana, he begs to be taken with. He wants to be brought to the witch, I assume he wants to kill her. Instead, he disappears and leaves behind his key with a clinking sound.

We rush back to the observation tower door and unlock it using the three keys. We begin an endless climb. Morgana reminds us that we are already dead. She was never anything but a human. But we've all changed since our deaths. Michel finally asks Morgana about herself, how she became a witch, how she became attached to this house...

Morgana tells her story. She was born the day that rain finally came and broke a dreadful drought, and her mother had claimed it was a divine child. Everyone believed it. Morgana was devout and someone asked her to prove herself one day with a miracle. She fed her own blood to an old, infirm woman who grew stronger afterwards. No one else questioned it, and the original challenger was to be punished, but she forgave him and he worshipped her.

As a child, she strongly believed that she could bring miracles to those around her. Word spread, and soon she had several scars from sharing her holy blood with others. Her mother grew greedy, and began to suggest that they charge a little for the miracles. Morgana refused, and her mother sold her off. She travelled far until she was delivered to the lord, who insisted he owned her. He cut her and would serve her blood to his guests. Morgana mourned, as her blood was supposed to be for the sick and the poor, not these who were obviously richly blessed. A transformation happens, and the lord raises his sword to kill her, claiming she was a witch in saint's skin.

Michel drops back onto the staircase without warning. He is being made to feel the pain Morgana felt. He's experiencing it firsthand. But this is not the end of the tale...

The slaves, at that moment, decided to revolt. A young man pulls Morgana out of there, and takes her to a brothel, where he promises someone can provide her a room and care for her. He shows Morgana her own face to ease her fears at the idea of being forced to sell her body - her face looks horrendous. She begs the slave to kill her, and he refuses, saying she'll eventually find good fortune if she lives long enough.

Eventually, Morgana starts to see the value and virtue in the women of the brothel - they don't have much themselves, but any extra was applied to Morgana's benefit. Ointments for her scars, etc. The slave occasionally returns and promises to show her the world. There is a bandit raid in the night, and the customers and workers are ruthlessly killed. The ones that were not were packed up to be sold.

Morgana cries, and a man asks her why - she tells him that she's sad because she didn't get the chance to show gratitude to people she loved. The man steals a sword, defeats their captors, finds the keys to his shackles and has Morgana unlock them. After this, he slays all the captives but Morgana. Pretty sure this is that one Dane Cook sketch, you know, "Thanks for the candy". He takes the sword, doesn't kill her, and leaves. [sounds like Yukimasa??]

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