A Memory of Storms

"A Memory of Storms" is the ninth episode of Book Two: Air for the first group, The Lotus Blossoms.

Previous episode: "The Poisoned Healer" Next episode: "The Hollow Circle"

Summary
The party find themselves in what appears to be a current, and eventually navigate to what appears to be a "bubble" of some kind. In doing so, they discover that the landscape around them has been created by Raikana and in fact is to some degree composed of Raikana's consciousness. The bubble is a memory, and as they navigate through the bubbles they discover each memory is "corrupted", and in order to advance and save Sulo and Raikana they must set things right, in the process learning about the factors contributing to Sulo's mental state. Each memory of Sulo's has a corresponding memory from Raikana that "plays" afterwards, following a similar theme. At the "heart" of the memory storm is a repressed memory-- the memory of Sulo's rescue by Xirrou. Raikana, too distraught to think, had failed to figure out Xirrou's place in the scene and was attempting to fill it herself. The party realise the pissing piece of the tale is Xirrou, and the memory plays over, this time showing the true ending of the memory-- Sulo being rescued by Xirrou. The party return to the ice arena, where Raikana talks to Mayna, before returning to the real world, where the party wake up. Raikana cuts her hair short, in the process revealing that she has now acquired a white streak similar to Sulo, and that the two are now spiritually connected.