Listen to the Echo

"No!" Seeing the door slide close, Emily lunged forward, scrambling toward the only exit. She was halted with tight hand on her tense shoulder, stopping her dead in her tracks as she reached toward the door."No! Let me go!" She shouted and to her surprise, the man did.Emily wrenched herself away from him, her breath coming fast, tears still streaming down her cheeks. "Why… why are you doing this? How could you do—" Her words broke with a sob as she fell to her knees and tried rub away the tears.The two took up guard on either side of the door, posture straight and stiff, and said nothing. Emily continued to cry herself into exhaustion, still not understanding the ramifications of the horrific tragedy she had witnessed.She wanted her Mommy. She wanted Corvo. But she was alone and her tears refused to stop. ...Completed stories/scenes interconnected with my Singing in the Void story. 1) After her mother is killed, Emily is kept in the den of her Mother's assassins and meets the people behind the blood stained masks. 2) The Whalers, Thomas, and Daud all feel the heavy weight of blame for what they've done to Dunwall, if only Daud understood that.