Any doubts he’d hold would soon be laid to rest, existential hopelessness voiced deliberately aloud contorting his brims into a wicked, insidious grin. “ Put everything you are onto the balance, your 𝐁𝐑𝐎𝐊𝐄𝐍 𝕭𝐀𝐋𝐀𝐍𝐂𝐄. That points to the path of no return. ”