Sid exhaled, voice low and serious now.
"Guess I'm about to learn what kind of life she lost… before she became the woman sleeping next to me."
He tightened his spectral fist.
"Alright then. Guess it's time I finally learn who you really were, Evelise."
He reached out and the moment his fingers brushed the surface, the light burst outward, swallowing the darkness in a wave of blinding white. His ethereal form reached out and touched the glowing tombstone, and the object instantly fragmented into a holographic star map. The dark void surrounding him was replaced by a network of glowing lines tracing a massive, stylized city grid, overlaid with countless faint, unlit nodes. Only one node, the one he had just activated, glowed brightly— a brilliant green light marking The Undying Bride. The rest of the map, stretching into the unknown depths of Evelise's past, remained entirely dark.
The system's calm, emotionless voice echoed through the emptiness.
