# The script of the game goes in this file. #Declare the variables default choix1 = False default choix2 = False default choix3 = False default choix4 = False default choix4bis = False default choix5 = False default choix6 = False default choix7 = False default choix8 = False default choix9 = False default choix10 = False default choix11 = False default choix12 = False default choix13 = False default choix14 = False default choix15 = False default choix16 = False default choix17 = False default choix18 = False default choix19 = False default choix20 = False default choix21 = False default choix22 = False image black = "#000" image white = "#ffffff" image mary = "mary.png" # Declare characters used by this game. The color argument colorizes the name of the character. define m = Character('Mary', color="#585858") # The game starts here. label start : # play music "chanson.mp3" scene black with fade "Everything." "Everything happened over the course of a winter." "The little ball of snow, innocently thrown from the highest peak, inescapably becomes an avalanche.." scene landscape1 with fade "The first time I saw you, it was autumn." "The grass was still green and the sky blue, but as the sun went progressively downhill, the light became dim." "Soon, darkness would settle and I would have to go back." "I felt dizzy, thoughts buzzing in my head." "The world seemed shaky and far away, a dream that I couldn’t catch." "I walked, but I couldn’t stop trembling with anger." "I didn’t understand why everything around me was so quiet." "The forest was perfectly still and there were only small ripples at the surface of the lake." "I was lost in my thoughts and I didn’t see you coming." scene landscape1shadow with dissolve "You were only a shadow, brushing past me." scene landscape1 with dissolve "I remember feeling annoyed." "I was used to being alone, in the wilderness." "Those were my lakes, my forests, my mountains." "I didn’t want to share. I didn’t want someone else to disturb the peace that felt wrong a minute ago." "I reached inside my pocket and pulled back my phone. I ignored the missing calls and pressed the button." scene landscape1 with fade "A picture appeared." "It didn’t look like the scenery in front of me." menu : "I sighed and glimpsed back. I wanted to see where you were going." : $ choix1 = True jump glimpse "Or maybe I was so irked I quickly walked away." : jump continue1 label glimpse : "Inelegantly, I turned back, but you were gone, I should have been able to see your shape in the bright path, but there was nobody." jump go label continue1 : "As I pushed forward, there was a gust of wind and I smelled a floral fragance over the damp grass." "It was strong and delicate." jump go label go : "I looked up and gazed at the passing clouds." "All around me, I could sense nature falling asleep, for a few hours of night, for a few weeks of cold." "I had better hurry up before dark." "I continued on the path." "I always walked when I was sad, or angry, or nervous. It was Mary’s idea and usually it helped." "But this time my heart was still pounding into my chest when I reached the river." scene landscape1closeup with dissolve menu : "I often turned back at this point, avoiding crossing the white water. " : $ choix2 = True jump turn "But I knew there was a ford, a little farther. I could go back later. " : jump continue2 label turn : "I had completely forgotten about you when I retraced my steps." "It was only when I stood in the place you ran past me that I flinched." if choix1 : "The wind blew a cloud in front of the sun and I felt a pervasive coldness rise inside me." jump episode2 else : "In the light breeze, still lingered the honeysuckle scent." "I looked around and you were nowhere to be seen." jump episode2 label continue2 : "The feeling of irritation was still fresh in my memory and I didn’t want to take the chance to run into you again." "I needed to think. I needed to be alone." "I knew Mary wouldn’t mind." jump episode2 label episode2: scene black with fade "I must have come back, one way or another, but I’m not sure how." "The memories evade me sometimes." "People keep telling me it’s normal, after such an incident." "The doctor was right. Even if I can walk and run, there are consequences." "Something is broken inside me." "My therapist says that I have to be honest with myself." "Tthat it’s important for me to put the events back together, exactly as they happened." "So I try to remember." "Words." "Words, useless words that I pile up every day." "And I keep looking at the pictures." scene landscape1 with fade "At first, I thought they would be hundreds of them." scene black with fade "But I found out that there were only a few that were not deleted." "I don’t recall erasing them." "I know my mind is playing tricks on me, but still." menu : "Maybe Mary did it, while I was unconscious." : $ choix3 = True jump photo "Maybe somebody else thought I shouldn’t see all of them." : jump photo label photo : "The images are landscapes, always. A light I saw, a shape I wished to capture." menu : "Perhaps I took them to show Mary what I was doing, when I was in the mountains.": $ choix4 = True jump photo2 "Perhaps I took them to be closer to you, when I was sitting at my desk." : $ choix4bis = True jump photo2 label photo2 : scene landscape2 with fade "And now I’m looking at the same pictures again and again, observing every detail, trying to find clues and answers." "This one, I remember. I took it the second time I saw you." "I didn’t see you right back after our first encounter." "Days passed, maybe even weeks. It was the end of autumn." "In the lowlands, leaves were brushed away from the trees." "The sun almost reached the horizon and I was so very close to my home." "At the end of the path, a right and a left and I would have found the wooden door my brother built for us." "I had left the house furious. Mary and I had a fight, another one." "She told me I was too passive about our life, that she couldn’t stand it anymore." "It was not the first time she had made vague threats without telling me what she wanted from me, exactly." "I had hurried outside before bursting out and I lingered in the fields in search of a solution." "Blinded by the light and freezing, I started taking root in the mud when I saw you coming toward me." show shadow at right with dissolve "It startled me and I smiled." hide shadow with dissolve "I guessed you noticed me since you quickly backed away." "Soon, you were only a silhouette among black shades." "And at this moment, I understood." scene landscape2closeup with dissolve menu : "I understood why Mary had been crying at her birthday." : $ choix5 = True jump birthday "I understood why you were avoiding me." : jump avoiding label birthday : "We didn’t see the same things." "She had always been the rational one, taking financial decisions and organizing our lives." "I remember shaking my body as if to free myself from a trance." "I felt the urge to feel her warmth in my arms." if choix4: "But before leaving, I took a picture. I wanted to give it to her as a peace offering." jump episode3 else: "But before leaving, I took a picture, hoping the feeling you gave me remained in it." jump episode3 label avoiding : "With all these stories of strange men doing strange things, it only seemed wise." "I promised myself that I wouldn’t be as creepy, next time, and I tore myself away from the ground." "But before leaving, I remember my cold fingers pressing on my phone and trying to be still while I took several pictures." if choix3: "I only have one left, now. The one Mary liked." jump episode3 else: "I only have one left, now, and not matter how many hours I spend watching it, there is no trace of you." jump episode3 label episode3 : scene landscape3 with fade "After that, life was a little easier. The harsh months were coming, but we still wouldn’t believe it." if choix5 : "Mary forgave me, I thought, and she wasn’t getting up late in the middle of the night as much as before." "She found some peace, I told myself." "And me too." jump dusk else : "Mary seemed to have found peace, as she didn’t sigh as much when I told her I was going outside." "I think she understood how important that was, for me." jump dusk label dusk : "That day, I was far from home when dusk sneaked on me." "I was thinking of the meal I was going to cook and the letters that I needed to write when something caught my eye." "There was a strange sculpture in the field below me." "It was black against the yellow sky and as high as two men. It looked like a basket made of large branches." "I observed and something moved. I immediately recognized the shadow." "It was you." "My heart raced." "I would see your work and you would talk to me." "I took my time to compose the picture." menu : "Surely, I wanted to impress you." : $ choix6 = True jump sculpture "But I knew Mary would love the view." : jump sculpture label sculpture : "When I finally moved, the sun was so bright that I couldn’t see where I was going." "I think I called, but I’m sure no one answered." "I walked and walked but never I found the shape that I saw earlier." "It drove me mad, but I resolved to find my way back home." "I was late again." if choix5: "The table was set and candles were burning. Mary didn’t say anything. She had cooked my favourite meal." if choix4: "I showed her the picture and she said she was relieved that I included her, somehow." jump lying else : "During the dinner, I realized her hair was the exact colour of the sunset. I told her that, but she scolded me." jump lying else: "The house was quiet. Mary was in the study and hushed me when I tried to apologize." jump lying label lying : "Lying on the bed, I couldn’t sleep. I kept asking myself what happened." "I was worried that I had a nervous breakdown or something." scene landscape3black with dissolve "Anxiety could make people see things, my mother had told me once." scene landscape3 with dissolve "Finally, I took my phone. The camera still displayed the last image that was taken." "I recognized the burning sky and the awe that I felt swell up inside me once again." "The shrine that had disappeared was there. I had proof. I wasn’t going crazy." scene black with fade "I slept like a baby. There was a perfectly rational explanation." scene landscape4 with fade "Two weeks later, I packed early in the morning and decided to hike to my favourite peak." "The tempest which went on for days was gone." "And I had had great news the day before." menu : "My mother wouldn’t be coming for Christmas." : $ choix7 = True jump episode4 "I didn’t need to buy my sister’s present, Mary would do it." : jump episode4 label episode4: "When I looked up from the bathroom, I saw that fog was crushing the summit." "But I was confident it would evaporate before mid-day. In the valley, the sun was timid but consistent." "As I climbed, I noticed my body was stiff and my heart rate elevated, but I pressed on." "Nothing could keep me down." "When I was almost at the top, where there was no tree to take shelter from the unforgiving wind, you appeared." "A gale dissipated the white mist and I realised I was not alone." if choix3: "And this thought made me happy." jump presence else: "I never could have imagined, at this moment, that you were looking for me, following me everywhere." jump presence label presence : "Your presence hardly lasted a few seconds." "The surprise made me stumble and I had to catch myself on the ground." "For a moment, I couldn’t find air in my lungs. Then it came back." "The clouds would lift and I would have somebody to admire the view with." "I gathered myself and tried to catch up. I walked hard and fast." scene landscape4white with dissolve "I pushed myself, always looking up, running whenever possible." "The wind continued to blow, but you were nowhere to be seen." "I made it to the top, and there was nobody." "I was disappointed." menu : "I waited and waited." : $ choix8 = True jump waitedandwaited "I went down the steep slope quickly." : jump steep label waitedandwaited: scene black with dissolve "No one came and it was midnight when I collapsed on the couch." "Mary was not here and I didn’t have the strength to call her." "I fell asleep curled up under the plaid." "Later, I heard the door open and a gasp, but immediately went back to my slumber." jump episode5 label steep: scene white with dissolve "I was soaked with sweat when I arrived home." "Mary threw me a concerned look." "I could not blame her. I had been reckless. I went to bed early, trying to hide my shame." jump episode5 label episode5: scene landscape5 with fade "In the following weeks, time moved fast. The sun had barely risen that already it descended." "The night overpowered me. I still went outside, but I feared the darkness." "More and more often, I saw you, as I dashed back home." "From afar, you always seemed peaceful and content as you moved discreetly." menu : "Sometimes I waved. Silently." : $ choix9 = True jump answered "But most of the time, I just kept my distance." : jump answered label answered : "You never answered - why would you? - but I couldn’t help but feel upset." "You became this familiar presence in the emptiness of the wilds. Seeing you was sort of reassuring." "Except this time." "For once, I didn’t feel like a total failure, so I left with the camera my father bought me." "I wanted to prove myself I still knew how to use it." "As I approached the lake, I saw a herd of deer, eating the frosted grass." "The picture I took didn’t do justice to the scene’s breathtaking beauty." "I remember staying there, staring for a while, without moving. I felt blessed and complete." menu : "All I wanted was to get closer to the deer." : $ choix10 = True jump deer "And at the same time, I was afraid to disturb them." : jump disturb label deer: "I tiptoed towards them, but they spotted me easily." "They began to shift as one, right and left, left and right, before fleeing in the forest." "I sighed and moved in the same direction." "I knew I wouldn’t catch them, but the easiest path to go back home was to cut through the woods." "I didn’t see you, but I still was soothed." "Mary and I made love that night." "We were happy." "But it didn’t last." jump episode6 label disturb: "Reluctantly, I continued my walk in the opposite direction for a while." "I didn’t have the time to circle back home, so I decided to turn back." "To be honest, it surely was a pretext to see the herd one more time." "But when I arrived, I couldn’t see their shadow against the sky. They seemed to have left." "I was a bit disappointed but I wanted to admire the burning colours of the sky mirrored in the lake." "So I didn’t hesitate to head for the place they were a few minutes ago." "When I arrived, my heart stopped." scene landscape5red with dissolve "Everything in my body shivered and I had to sit on the earth." "In front of me, a slaughter." "Each deer had been killed in the most horrible manner." "Their carcasses were ripped apart." menu : "I ran as fast as I could." : $ choix11 = True jump fast "Or, at least I wanted to. I stayed there, unable to move, unable to breathe." : jump unable label fast: "I don’t remember how I got back. My clothes were shredded when I arrived." "Mary must have seen my terror since she took care of me that night." jump news label unable: "I went back home, slowly, painfully." "In the dark. I kept stumbling and felt something behind me." "I woke Mary up and collapsed in tears. She hugged me and urged me to sleep." jump news label news: "The day after, we heard on the news that a wolf had been captured." "Mary told me that what I saw was his doing, but I had doubts." "I couldn’t silence the voice in my head repeating that a wolf only kills to survive, not for pleasure." "But like everything, my fright faded and it wasn’t long before I was outside once again." if choix4: scene black with fade "Mary pushed me. I wasn’t sure why." "I guessed she found my presence irritating when she was focused on her work." jump episode6 else: scene black with fade "Mary didn’t seem to care." "After the horrendous evening, she didn’t make time for me and I couldn’t blame her." "I saw the papers stacked up on her desk." jump episode6 label episode6: scene landscape6 with fade "Winter came, with its insufferable silence." "Snow fell again and again. The landscape changed. The blizzard wouldn’t stop for days." "I was trapped." "I could hear the ticking of the clock and the wind in the roof tiles." "I was bored and Mary was still overworked." "The arguments resumed, over the hot coffee in the morning, during the long hours of the afternoon, late at night." "I couldn’t stand it, but each day I woke up thinking it would be different." "One day, I opened the shutters and the sky was ice blue." "I grabbed a jacket. Everything was quiet outside. I climbed in the forest." "The white kingdom was undisturbed." "There was no one but me. The animals were still hidden, snuggled inside their den, protected under a tree." "I slowly progressed in the cold powder." "It wasn’t even midday and already, the sun had melted away the snow on the fir trees." "I quickly grew tired, but couldn’t resolve to turn back." "I didn’t want to go back to what I left and pushed onwards." "The sunbeams, filtered by the branches, dazzled me." "I arrived at the Combe. I felt weak and I panted as I removed my gloves to take a picture." "I wanted to lie down on the ground and sleep." scene landscape6black with dissolve "I closed my eyes and my head started to drop." "I woke up as I felt someone standing next to me." "I didn’t dare to open my eyes. You were there." if choix9: "All this time, I had waved, taming you little by little. And finally, you decided to come and see me." jump tiny else: "All this time, I kept my distance. But you decided it was time and I had to be ready." jump tiny label tiny: "As I realized that, with a tiny movement, I could see you, I froze." "Sweat was dripping on my back. My hands shook like the autumn leaves." "I had always been a bit queasy around people that I didn’t know and meeting you made me nervous." menu : "I gathered my courage and I moved my head." : $ choix12 = True jump lifted "But how long did I wait?" : jump lifted label lifted: scene landscape6 with fade "I lifted my gaze and you were not there." "I looked around, rubbed my eyes, but you were nowhere to be seen." "There was no trace in the fresh snow either." menu : "I wept." : $ choix13 = True jump giveup " I squealed." : jump giveup label giveup: "But I wouldn’t give up. Not again. Not this time." "I drifted here and there, looking for you." "I took all the paths I knew. I was frustrated and delirious." "You couldn’t have gone far. You couldn’t have gone back to the village in such a short time." scene landscape7 with fade "I wandered until dusk in the heights." "I could hardly see my trail, taking random pictures." "And when I would have forsaken my hope, you appeared." "You floated along the border of the forest, moving from one tree to another, but clearly going toward me." "My heart ceased to function properly." menu : "I called you." : $ choix14 = True jump called "I walked to meet you. " : jump meet label called: "Without remorse, I shattered the silence. Birds flew away, into the fading blue sky." jump episode7 label meet: "The low walls separating the summer grazing areas didn’t seem like obstacles." jump episode7 label episode7: "You stopped, looking at me like I was a strange beast." "But you didn’t run away. A surge of hope blew up in my chest." "And finally, you were in front of me." scene landscape7black with dissolve "In the darkness, I couldn’t see your face very well, but your silhouette was tall and delicate." menu : "I must have said hello and introduced myself." : $ choix15 = True jump immobile "That only seemed logical, but I’m not sure I even did that." : jump immobile label immobile: "We stayed immobile for a bit, without talking. Words were unnecessary." "You seemed shy and I was mesmerized by your beauty." "I wanted to get closer but didn’t dare. I satisfied myself with the light flower perfume that you wore." "My worries were quashed. I could have stayed there forever." "One instant, you were almost next to me and the next one, you were gone." "I wondered where you went before realizing that I had lost the feelings in my fingers." "I needed to move, and fast, before freezing to death." scene black with dissolve "Once again, Mary was gone when I came back." "It didn’t bother me. I drew up a bath and immersed myself in my dreams." menu : "I wondered what was your name, where you lived, what you did." : $ choix16 = True jump determined "But I also pondered on your repeated disappearances. " : jump determined label determined: "Determined to find answers, I went to bed. Nothing else mattered to me." if choix7: "Without flinching, I opened the text from my mother telling me that she would be able to attend." jump episode8 else: "Under the sheets, Mary talked to me about Christmas presents, but I only half-listened to the boring list she made." jump episode8 label episode8: scene landscape8 with fade "As the festive season approached, I spent more and more time outside the house." menu : "For Mary, I told myself. To let her breathe." : $ choix17 = True jump each "For me, I acknowledged. To avoid going crazy." : jump each label each: "Each day, I went for a walk and everywhere my gaze would turn, I would see you. Always magnificent, always proud." "You were never far from me, but never too close either. We were getting used to each other." if choix12: "Often I tried to talk to you, but you hushed me. Sometimes, I reached toward you, but you would escape my hand." "One afternoon, when the sun was bright and the wind gentle, I heard you sigh and I decided to try again." "I was surprised when you answered, a whisper to my ear." jump uttered else: "During days and days, we walked together in silence." "I led and you followed, but I could always see you in the corner of my eyes." "Never did I take a step aside my path. I didn’t want to frighten you." "I couldn’t risk losing you." "I was surprised when I heard a murmur next to my ear." jump uttered label uttered : "I couldn’t understand the words that you uttered." "Maybe because the blood was pounding furiously in my head." "It didn’t stop me from asking the questions I rehearsed so many times." if choix16: "With the softest voice, I requested to know your name, your home, your life." if choix15: "With pride, you told me my name, my home, my job. I asked again and I heard a chuckle." jump thought else: "But I recalled with anger that I didn’t tell you mine. I began to fix this mistake when I heard you chuckle." jump thought else: "With the softest voice, I requested that you explain your disappearances, your silences." "I heard a chuckle and understood that you wouldn’t give me your secret so easily. I had to be patient." jump slew label thought: "Maybe you thought it didn’t matter, for you, for us. I was curious, but I didn’t have time to pursue my inquiry." jump slew label slew: "I was surprised when a slew of sentences came out of your mouth, like packs of snow falling off branches." if choix2: "Why did I turn back, the first time?" jump hesitating else: "Why did I continue, the first time?" jump hesitating label hesitating: "I looked at the clouds, hesitating." "As the words began to gather under my tongue, you raised once again your shrieking voice." if choix9: "Why did I wave, again and again?" jump paced else: "Why was I so indifferent, at the beginning?" jump paced label paced: "I paced back and forth. I didn’t know what you were expecting me to say." "I felt lost as sounds kept resonating all around me." if choix13: "Why did I cry, that bright day?" jump tore else: "Why did I scream, that bright day?" jump tore label tore: "Questions after questions tore the silence and my confidence." "Of course, I still had all those events in my mind but I didn’t expect you to have noticed all these things." "I became fidgety as I tried to explain." menu : "I told you I wanted to meet you for a long time." : $ choix18 = True jump lookat "Unless I talked about how annoyed I was, at first." : jump lookat label lookat: scene landscape8closeup with fade "I couldn’t look at you, and turned my gaze to the sun." "It was less painful than facing your accusing shadow. I talked for a while." "You must have been happy with my answers because you threw expectantly yourself at me." "We fell down on the wet snow, but I couldn’t care less." "You hugged me tight in your long arms, your face buried in my neck." "Your touch was light and cool." "I felt dizzy and ecstatic. I didn’t move. I didn’t want to." "Finally, I was sure I wasn’t alone in this." "Finally, I had gained your trust." "I sunk deeper into your shape." if choix18: "My love." jump gotup else: jump gotup label gotup: "At one point, you got up and I followed, defying the icy wind." "We continued to walk for some time that day." "We didn’t say anything more. There was no need for useless words." "I left at sunset with the promise to come back the next day." scene black with fade "When I shut the door, Mary was waiting. She told me we had to talk." "She thought I was spending too much time alone." "Friends would come regularly. Some of them were already there." menu : "I pretended to have a migraine and went to bed." : $ choix19 = True jump episode9 "Or maybe I endured the company of others. " : jump evening label evening: "All evening, I kept looking at my phone under the table. The pictures I took reminded me of your soothing presence." jump episode9 label episode9: scene white with fade "I think my absences really began that day." "I can’t remember exactly what happened." "But I recall feeling nauseous and burning." "Mary insisted that I spend the day with them. Inside." "They talked about stuff and there was food." "At the end of the afternoon, I couldn’t take it anymore." menu : " I sneaked outside." : $ choix20 = True jump alone "I really wanted to. But maybe we all went together." : jump friends label alone: scene landscape10 with fade "I ran. Fast and far. When I thought I might collapse from exhaustion, I continued." "I didn’t want to go back. I needed to see you. I had to keep my promise." "Finally, my legs betrayed me. I had to stop. I was in a pasture that I didn’t recognize." "My breath settled. Everything around me was quiet. The sky was blue in so many ways. The sun was sinking behind the horizon." scene landscape10closeup1 with fade "I observed the world around me and tried to capture the moment." "I rejoiced in the darkness to come." "I was sure you would find me, wherever I was, and they wouldn’t." "I watched and squinted for a long time, never losing hope." "And I was right. You came from the forest, like before." scene landscape10closeup2 with fade "You kept to yourself for a while, like before." "You were anxious, and I knew why. I felt the same way." "Our last meeting was so passionate, so unreal, we didn’t know how to react, how to be with each other again." "You came closer to me." "I had a strange feeling in my stomach." scene landscape10closeup3 with fade "Everything around me became bright and blurred." "There was a light breeze on my lips. You kissed me." "You stroke my cheek. You pressed yourself against me." menu : "I tried to grab you." : $ choix21 = True jump fled "I stayed perfectly still." : jump later label fled : "But you had already fled." jump wake label later: "An instant later, you fled." jump wake label wake: scene black with fade "I didn’t see you again that night and I was very careful not to wake anyone, sleeping in the garage, with my phone in my hand." if choix21: jump sex else: jump episodelast label friends : scene landscape9 with fade "The friends, Mary, and I, we walked in the forest, our forest." "I was desperate. I couldn’t believe that I wasn’t alone. I was sure that you wouldn’t come to me." "We never talked about our lives. I didn’t tell you about Mary. You would see us and be angry." "I shivered and staggered." "Because they asked, pictures were taken, but I couldn’t resolve myself to shape portraits." "Systematically, I cut bodies and faces out of the frame." "I tried to hurry, but Mary seemed to enjoy the threatening blue sky." "She kept looking at me smiling. Her pace was slow, too slow, and the trees began to confine us." "Soon, there were only the two of us." "Then, it began." menu : "I need to keep quiet." : $ choix22 = True jump keepquiet "And, at the same time, I wanted to tell her everything." : jump tellher label tellher: "My mouth opened and everything crawled outside me." "My silences, my lies, my love. I told her about you." "I think she froze. Or did she continue to walk, so slowly that I didn’t notice?" "I couldn’t think of anything. I couldn’t breathe." if choix8: "I told her about the time I waited for you." jump hugged elif choix4bis: "I told her about the pictures, that they reminded me of you." jump hugged #apparently the former elif doesn't work. I can't figure why. else: jump hugged label keepquiet : "So I did. I pressed inside me the monster that wanted to come out." "I held it tight while Mary was chatting away her trouble." "Sometimes, I nodded and leaned toward her. I couldn’t do more, but she seemed happy with that." scene black with fade "We turned back and she occupied herself with the guests for the rest of the evening while I was busy with my phone." jump sex label hugged: "I told her about the time we hugged. I thought she would cry and yell. She didn’t. She looked at me and I could almost see her." show mary with dissolve m "“That’s ok. I knew something was wrong. We’re going to figure it out. We’re going to need help, but we’ll manage.”" hide mary with dissolve scene black with fade "She took me home and the evening was quiet." jump episodelast label sex: scene landscape11 with fade "I left when the moon was still high. We would meet at dawn and I didn’t have much time to lose." "I reached the lake a few minutes before you. Just enough to capture the burning sky before you caught me by surprise." "Your hand was on my neck and your breath caressed my cheek. I turned and your grip tightened." "You drove my face towards yours and I opened my mouth." "The scent of honeysuckle was everywhere. I gasped." "Your body was imprinted into my chest. I saw impossible colours." "Everything happened at once and when the shadows faded, we quickly parted." jump episodelast label episodelast : scene landscape12 with fade "During days, it poured rain and I stayed inside." if choix21 : "I knew I wouldn’t be able to see you, so I treasured the picture I had, patiently waiting for the next thinning." jump cloudslifted elif choix22: "I knew I wouldn’t be able to see you, so I treasured the picture I had, patiently waiting for the next thinning." jump cloudslifted else : "Mary was with me." "We made bread. We played silly games. We watched a movie." "One day, when she couldn’t avoid it anymore, she took the car and drove away." jump cloudslifted label cloudslifted : "That day, the clouds lifted and I went out." "It was not spring yet, but in the valley, the air was mild." "The climb was easy. The rain washed down the snow and only remained icy patches here and there on the path." "I felt fresh and calm as I reached my favourite peak." if choix21 : "I was eager to finally share this sacred place with you." "Unlike the first time, you wouldn’t be afraid." "We knew each other. We loved each other." "Sunbeams began to break through the mist, revealing our kingdom." "I never felt happier." jump ending elif choix22: "I was eager to finally share this sacred place with you." "Unlike the first time, you wouldn’t be afraid." "We knew each other. We loved each other." "Sunbeams began to break through the mist, revealing our kingdom." "I never felt happier." jump ending else : "The mist was disappearing. I was happy to see the land I had loved so much one last time." "By the end of the day, the sky would be completely blue and it would be a new life, elsewhere." "Sunbeams began to break through the mist." "I felt reborn." jump ending label ending : scene white with dissolve "And then I fell." "I don’t know why." "I don’t know how." "I don’t know who." "I only have the remaining pictures and my frail memory to decide." "What will be my life now?" menu : "Mary." : jump end "Or you." : jump end label end : "It's decided, then." "Time to stop writing." "Time to move on." "Life is waiting." return