Noctave relentlessly combed the library for the location of the Abyss. The Abyss was mentioned fairly often as the place where the spirits of the dead lay, but it seemed that nobody knew the current location of the Abyss. The former location was in the tallest mountain, Mt. Eternity, which was located in the middle of the ocean. But when people started to show up to beg and bargain for their loved ones back, Umbrum changed the location.

Noctave found a box behind one of the bookshelves, labeled "My Memoirs' Manuscript".

Memoir? Noctave thought, Urainia's memoirs were published by now!

But when she saw that it was typed, rather than written, she knew it was Umbrum's.

Urainia's handwriting was always pretty yet legible, but Umbrum's handwriting might as well have been written in a code. He prefered the typewriter to the pen.

Noctave took the memoirs to her room to look through.

Time had made the pages yellow and the ink fade, but it was still in fairly good condition otherwise. The pages were entirely out of order, Noctave only scanning for any mention of the Abyss.

Finally, she found something!

For those of you looking for the Abyss, you must first solve this riddle:

You must go up to go down,

Seek the old yet ever green,

Draw the power, just to drown

In a chalice of ruby tea

Noctave was frustrated, but not particularly surprised. If Urainia was the goddess of wisdom and knowledge, then Umbrum was the god of secrets, which are just hidden forms of knowledge.

Noctave analyzed the poem more. "to go down" clearly meant that the Abyss was located underground, but what did they mean by "go up"?

Wait-"Seek the old yet ever green". Ever green, ever green, evergreen. The pine forest! The Great Northern Pine Forest is the location! Draw the power clearly means to draw Umbrum's sigil.

But "ruby tea"? Urainia likes tea, but Umbrum never touched the stuff. He was more of a red wine guy...that's it!

Noxis appeared in her room. He was bored, just eaten all the rats in the cellar.

Noctave asked him "Can you help me navigate the wine cellar? I have to get an offering of red wine to Umbrum."

Noxis eyed her suspiciously and circled her. "An offering to Umbrum? Why now? You barely acknowledged his existence before."

"I need to know the location of the Abyss. I promised everyone that I'd find it."

Noxis gave her a sly smile. "I can help, but only if you let me accompany you to the Abyss. I would dearly like to see Umbrum again."

Something told Noctave that Noxis was hiding something, but she didn't know what.

Noxis lead Noctave into the wine cellar. "How do we know which ones are good?"

Noxis told her "The ones that smell good should also taste good. It's not advanced calculus."

Noctave found 3 she liked the smell of, and knowing that 3 offerings are better than one, she took them all with her.

With the power of the half moon, she and Noxis were easily able to teleport to The Great Northern Pine forest at nightfall.

There was a cold breeze and a large murder of crows watching them from the branches of the evergreens. Noxis hissed at them, and they flew away.

Noctave made Umbrum's sigil in the cold, black dirt, putting the wines next to it.

It was a complicated sigil, a bunch of interlocking circles and squares with a variety of horns and spikes. It took her 5 minutes to draw a good version of it, because her hand was not very steady while drawing it.

Yet when it was finished, nothing happened. Noctave kicked up dirt to cover it, fell to her knees, and tried not to break down.

Noxis saw her, and gave her a massive hint. "The riddle said "draw the power" not "draw Umbrum's power". What is your power?"

Noctave stood up. "The moon is my power." She drew a half-circle, representing the moon, and it began to glow a light blue. The pines glowed blue, the winds picked up, and the ground parted to show an entrance to the Abyss.

Noctave felt the glow of pride and success, but it was dampened when she saw the shadow of a much larger man in front of her.

The spell had changed Noxis from a cat-like creature to a human-like creature. A shadowy human-like creature, reminding her of some art she saw of Umbrum.

Before Noctave could think to fight back, she was taken by Noxis and he teleported her directly to Umbrum.