The Time Left to Us

The Time Left to Us

Quest giver

Tesleen

Location

Amh Araeng (X:28.9, Y:27.3)

Quest line

Shadowbringers Main Scenario Quests

Level

70

Experience

 216,000

Gil

 1,189

Previous quest

A Purchase of Fruit

Next quest

Tears on the Sand

Patch

5.0

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Main Scenario Progress: 552 / 960 (57.5%)

   

Shadowbringers Progress: 11 / 157 (7%)

   

“

Tesleen makes an effort to smile brightly.

— In-game description

Steps

• Speak with Tesleen.
• Search the area for Halric.
• Continue searching for Halric.
• Continue searching for Halric.
• Speak with Alisaie.
• Speak with the carers. 0/2
• Speak with Halric.

Journal

• Tesleen makes an effort to smile brightly.

• Determined not to inflict her own feelings of gloom on the patients, Tesleen suggests a meal to lighten the mood. You are duly treated to a delicious stew, which does much to restore your spirits. Even as you consider a second helping, however, a frantic carer rushes up to report that Halric has gone missing...

• Time being of the essence, Alisaie suggests assigning search areas, and Tesleen claims the territory to the east. Alisaie herself volunteers to take the north and the west, leaving you to scour everything to the south.

• You find no sign of the missing Halric. There are, however, still plenty of other places to the south of the Inn where a young boy might wander unseen...

• As you scan your surroundings in search of Halric, you stray into the path of a ravenous sin eater. But the predator is soon made to regret its choice of prey, and you resume seeking the Inn's wayward patient.

• A short while later, you stumble into a breathless Alisaie, whose own search has proven similarly fruitless. As you wonder where to look next, a large sin eater flies overhead, and you decide to give chase in the hope that the creature might lead you to your quarry...as indeed it does. Alas, you arrive too late to prevent Tesleen from sacrificing herself to save the boy, and so bear witness to her horrifying transformation. The road back to the Inn is a somber one indeed...

• With Alisaie still reeling from the loss of her friend, it falls to you to console the Inn's surviving carers.

• Tesleen's colleagues are understandably devastated by the news of her fate, but they seem comforted by your stoic presence nonetheless. This does little to assuage your guilt at failing to prevent the atrocity, however. You wonder what Halric must be feeling beneath that silent mask...

• As before, your attempts to engage the boy are met with a blank stare and nothing more. This sudden tragedy has cast a pall of hopelessness over the Inn and its residents─everywhere you turn, you see faces etched with grief and sadness.

Dialogue

Quest Acceptance

Tesleen: Well, nothing is going to happen for a little while yet, so let's see if we can't lighten the mood. We don't want our gloomy faces worrying the patients! I think it's time for that welcome meal, don't you? Take a seat, and I'll make us a nice stew!

At a campfire, at night. The nectarine is on a table.
Tesleen: Speak up if you'd like another helping. I made a little bit more than usual today.
Alisaie: And you've added something special to the broth, if I'm not mistaken?
Tesleen: Aye, well, it's not often we have visitors from the Crystarium, so I may have thrown in a few extra bits and bobs.
What will you say? You needn't have gone to the trouble. / I'll have another bowl, then! -> You needn't have gone to the trouble.
Tesleen: Oh, it's nothing, really! And we do so rarely have guests. (Tesleen turns away) In a place like this, you learn to take what moments of happiness you can get. I remember when I first came here with my mother. She was showing the early signs...
Tesleen: I knew there was no way to save her, but I just couldn't face what needed to be done. That's the way of it for most people─why they travel for malms to stay here. Beaten, broken souls come to wait out the inevitable. To receive the mercy of a painless death. When my mother finally left this world, I was mad with grief, but also thankful that her passing was a peaceful one. (Tesleen glances at the nectarine, and looks down)
Tesleen: It's never easy, ending a life you've cared for. Even when you believe they go on to a better place. I often find myself wishing the Warrior of Darkness would come and do that part for me.
Alisaie: The Warrior of Darkness...?
Tesleen: You've never heard the tale? I'm not sure where it began, but every child in Norvrandt could tell you a version of it.
Tesleen: 
"Warrior of Darkness, servant of death,
take care of our souls at our dying breath...
“Let sinners and eaters of sin go with thee,
That all may return to the sunless sea.”
Tesleen: ...Well, that's the version I was taught anyway. It's just an old bedtime story─he's certainly never deigned to visit us here.
Alisaie: Which is a good thing, surely? He sounds rather ominous.
Tesleen: Do you think so? I always liked the idea that he treated every soul the same, even the sin eaters.
All of the patients in the infirmary look up

Pawnil: They're coming...
Panicked Caregiver: Tesleen! Have you seen Halric!? I swear, I only took my eyes off him for a moment...

Alisaie: Where could he have gone!?
Panicked Caregiver: This is my fault. The patients were acting strangely, and I let it distract me...

Speak with Tesleen

Tesleen: [Forename], Alisaie─we have to go look for Halric! I don't know what's gotten into him, but if he's wandering out there alone...
Alisaie: We'll assign search areas and split up. Any idea where he might be headed?
Tesleen: No, he's never done anything like this before. But it can't be a coincidence that the other patients are suddenly so agitated. They can sense something...
Tesleen: In any case, let's keep the search close to the Inn. Halric isn't very sure on his feet, so he won't have gone far. I'll search the east side! Please, Halric... Please be all right...!
Alisaie: I'll cover the north and west, then. You take everything from here to the south!

Search the area for Halric

You see no sign of Halric. Maybe he went further west...

Continue searching for Halric

You scan your surroundings in search of Halric...and suddenly find yourself under attack!

Continue searching for Halric

Alisaie: Any sign of him!? No luck, then. But he surely can't have gone far. We should keep looking. The sin eaters are out in force, and if we don't find him soon, you can be sure they will. 
A large flying sin-eater passes by
Alisaie: Did you see the size of that thing? It must be one of the nasty ones. Wherever it's going, it can only mean trouble. After it!

Alisaie: There it is! Is that─ Oh...oh no!
(The Sin-Eater prepares to strike Halric, and Tesleen strikes its wings)
Alisaie: Halric!
Tesleen: We have to run! (Tesleen is struck by the Sin-Eater)
Alisaie: Tesleen, no!
Tesleen: We all deserve happiness...wherever we can find it...
Tesleen: The time left to you...is precious... No one should die...in pain...
Tesleen: Mother...Mother, I...
(The sin-eater withdraws the sword from Tesleen, who begins to scream continually. She begins vomiting light from her mouth, and Halric looks on. She looks up, and turns pure white and into a winged cocoon. The cocoon erupts and another flying Sin-Eater comes out, different than the one that attacked Tesleen. )
Alisaie: Oh no, no... No, no, no, no, no! 
Tesleen: (as a Sin Eater) Forgive me...Alisaie... (Tesleen flies away)

Speak with Alisaie

Alisaie: I...
Alisaie: I'm sorry, [Forename]. I tried to tell the carers what happened, but...
Alisaie: ...I can't be the shoulder they lean on. Not like this.

Speak with the carers

Cassana: <sob> ...It's just so unfair. Tesleen was always so cheery with the patients, telling them not to be scared, that there wouldn't be any pain...
Cassana: Of all the people in the world to suffer such a fate!

Willfort: I imagine you're just as shocked as the rest of us, so I appreciate what you're doing here. Me? I can barely... I don't have the words. Without a body, we can't even give her a proper burial! And she cared about that sort of thing─about giving people the chance to say their good-byes...

Speak with Halric

Halric: ......
Halric is as unresponsive as ever. He stands motionless, staring up into the sky where the sin eaters made their escape...