Because of a promise, I have been trapped in this sea of fog for two thousand years.
Until that day, I picked up a young man who was about to drown.
They said I was a ghost, a curse, a sea legend that would never go away.
They were right.
The "Lady Clara" sank in the catastrophe at the end of the Fourth Age, and I, Captain Nigel, was forever anchored in this rift in time and space because of my oath to "bring everyone home." Every time the fog rises, it is a repeat of that disaster; every voyage is a return that cannot be reached.
Until I met Luca, a young man who was also homeless but had the aura of Styx around him.
He can see my increasingly transparent spirit body and can read the ancient diary written with blood and memory. He said he would help me "rest in peace".
But when the truth is revealed, the choice we face is far crueler than death:
Breaking the cycle, I will completely dissipate, and the out-of-control vortex of time and space will swallow the entire sea area;
By maintaining the status quo, I will be trapped in obsession forever, and he will become the new prisoner on this ghost ship.
But we all forgot.
The deepest obsession can turn from a prison into a lighthouse.
The longest watch can make a tragedy never end,
Be the glimmer of home for all those who have wandered.
"The lantern is everlasting, the oath is everlasting."
This is a story about how sacrifice becomes redemption and how despair becomes the other side.
When the glimmer of humanity pierces the prison of divinity and time and space - which light are you willing to be?
Intent: Obsession is transformed by gentle gaze - when the lonely watcher is understood, the eternal cage becomes a beacon that illuminates all the lost.
