[as you run, you can hear the debtors in the hallway talking to themselves. cloud mumbles something that sounds like they're eating me from the inside, rats, they're - as you stumble past him. you hear both gale and karlach, curled in on themselves, mumbling burning, sizzling, do you feel it - don't come too close as you race by. they're fine, though, don't worry about them. it's not much different than the rest of the debtors up and down the hallway. you imagine if you could see aerith and kanda they'd be whispering about rats too, or poison, or bugs.

anyway, your attention is caught by... hope! she is here! she claps her hands excitedly when you stop.]

Oh, you look positively wretched. Perfect! The Master of the House is on his way! Not perfect! You stole it? You stole it IN THIS HOUSE THIEVES ARE MELTED LIKE BUTTER AND SPREAD ON TOAST shhhhh, I'm doing it again, shhh...

[ok]

I am through this door. A horrid place where pleasure is pain and pain is pleasure and hope cannot live at all...

[but - the door is open! you can go through. in fact, hope insists that you go through because you are hit with a wind, and tossed right into a big, open room. it's dark, though, you can't quite see what's inside, save for the long red glowing chains at the back of the wall. the door slams behind you.]