Velen visits Aeris in chains.
He stops time.
Everything freezes.
He reveals the truth:
The Sky is not divine.
It is a barrier.
A prison.
Something was locked away centuries ago.
The children are fragments of the lock.
Aeris is the final key.
If he dies—
The seal collapses instantly.
If he lives—
It breaks slowly.
"There was never a good outcome," Velen says.
Time resumes.
Dawn approaches