🔥 EPISODE 37 — "SEVEN, AND THEN THERE WERE NONE"
SCENE 1 — THE CASTLE TURNS HOSTILE
The Infinite Castle no longer obeys shadow. Corridors shift mid-strike. Walls interrupt attacks. Floors tilt to expose enemies.
The Upper Moons realize it at the same time:
The battlefield is no longer neutral.
Aryex doesn't command it. He doesn't need to.
The Castle recognizes intent.
SCENE 2 — FIRST MOON: THE ONE WHO DEVOURS SOUND
Silence crashes down. Blades swing without noise. Raven loses rhythm.
Aryex closes his eyes.
He doesn't fight with hearing. He fights with presence.
Light pulses once.
The silence fractures.
The Moon screams for the first time— not in sound, but in existence.
The Castle seals the corridor.
Gone.
SCENE 3 — SECOND & THIRD: GRAVITY AND TIME
Gravity crushes Aryex to one knee. Time stutters — half-seconds repeating.
Raven is thrown aside.
Aryex bleeds.
Then he stands.
Not faster. Not stronger.
Still.
Light stabilizes time around his body. Gravity reverses.
The two Moons collide— their powers canceling each other out.
The Castle closes.
Two more erased.
SCENE 4 — FOURTH: THE HUMAN-FACED MOON
This one speaks. Beggs. Remembers villages. Names.
Aryex hesitates.
That almost kills him.
Raven steps in.
One clean strike.
"No more lies," she says.
The Moon fades.
Raven doesn't look back.
SCENE 5 — FIFTH & SIXTH: FORM AND FORMLESS
One bleeds shadow into light. The other has no body—only pressure.
Aryex fights alone now. Raven guards Ilya.
The fight is brutal. Exhausting. Messy.
Aryex takes wounds that don't close.
Then the Castle intervenes again— mirrors forming, reflecting light endlessly.
The shadow bleeds itself dry.
The formless one disperses.
Only one remains.
FINAL SCENE — THE LAST UPPER MOON DESCENDS
The Castle goes quiet.
The final gate opens.
He steps out.
Calm. Tall. Unhurried.
Different.
Raven stiffens. Aryex feels something old twist in his chest.
"This one…" Raven whispers. "…is above the others."
The Moon looks at Aryex.
And smiles.
CUT TO BLACK.