Fade to Black?

Summer 2021, Week 5

Tuesday early morning

Saint Marsh Orphanage, The Wards

Saint Marsh

All part of his routine, Tobias woke up, got himself dressed, sat at the edge of his bed and prayed for guidance as he looks into the future. He closes his eyes and the vein running down his forehead bulges as he looks at the events surrounding the orphanage, up until he goes to sleep for the next. His curiosity overtakes him, and he tries to see beyond the events of the day for the children and volunteers of the orphanage, the images a hazy blur as he sees the events playing out in fast-forward motion, trying to keep a hold on the visions as they gradually speed up in his mind.

[Path.| Seer, Minor x1 Normal x1, -4EP (36/40)]

  The visions continue to race past his mind's eye, the further forward the more hazy and blurred they become, the possibilities of current actions making the future mutable, malleable to the decisions of the now and the near future.   Then it abruptly.. stops. Confused, he tries to see the back just a little further, focusing on the image just before everything went black and still. The image just before the dark was one of his home, his livelihood, pride and joy, in flames with the silhouette of a dark figure standing before it, his hands moving as if to push them to rise higher and burn hotter. He screams in his vision, shouting to the figure, though it is hard to make out exactly what he says. Other figures rush out of the fire, carrying the kids to safety from the flames as the dark figure raises a pistol.   BANG   And everything goes dark.

[Path.| Seer, Normal x1, -3EP (33/40)]

  He opens his eyes, shaking from the vision he just witnessed. He shakes his head as if to shake off the fright. It can't end like that, can it? But the end was so clear.. He steels his resolve and puts on a happy mask. I can't let it happen. There's gotta be a better ending than that.