Excellent.You'll receive **three full, very extensive, dark versions of the story**—each resulting from a different decision by Jacob.Each will be a complete, long chapter, like an alternate course of fate.Together, they will form the "Branching Trilogy of the Darkness of the Cave of Whispers."Let's begin.

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# **CHAPTER 6A: "When Jacob Accepts the Truth"**

*(Option A—full, extensive, dark)*

The light quivered in the creature's hand like a living flame, even though it gave off no warmth. Jacob felt anxiety throb in his temples, his heart quicken, and the air suddenly feel heavier—as if the cave itself were watching him, waiting.

Argo growled, but didn't pull away.

He was ready to fight if anything tried to harm his master.

Jacob felt the decision made.

He reached out.

Slowly, but without hesitation.

As his fingers touched the light, a scream tore through him—not his own.

It was the cave screaming.

It was the whispers screaming.

It was the trapped memories screaming.

And then…

**Light tore into his body.**

Not superficially.

Not like a coldness melting into his skin.

It felt as if someone had suddenly thrown open every door in his mind and let in a hurricane.

Images began to flood him.

### **Vision 1—The Darkness of the Birth of a Being**

Jacob saw planets that didn't exist.

Stars that collapsed in on themselves.

Beings that didn't live, but endured.

One of them—the one standing before him now—had once been full of light.

She was a guardian.

She was a watcher.

She was a fragment of something greater.

But then **something** destroyed her race.

Something unknown, unnatural.

Something that came not from space—but from the void between time.

When the last of its kind died, the light that took over Jacob was created as a carrier of memory.

Jakub saw the being flee into space, seeking refuge in places where reality is paper-thin—caves, cracks in the earth, abandoned places filled with human suffering.

### **Vision 2 — People Who Died Here**

Jakub saw people wandering into the Cave of Whispers.

Lost.

Wounded.

Seeking answers.

Each received a fragment of truth.

Each paid for it…

…with their own memories.

Jakub felt cold.

The vision showed him a man who had forgotten his name.

A woman who had forgotten her children.

A child who had forgotten that he had once loved the sun.

### **Vision 3 — The Future**

The light stopped on a single image.

The city.

His city.

A dark fog hanging over the rooftops.

People fleeing in panic.

The Argo roaring down a street full of bodies.

And something else.

A shadow.

Enormous.

Unearthly.

Creeping from the building like dark rain.

The creature from the cave uttered words that sent a jolt through Jacob's spine:

**"It will come. Soon."**

### **Back to reality**

Jacob opened his eyes with a scream, sweating, trembling. His hands felt as if he were holding a fragile crystal.

The Argo jumped around him nervously, nudging him with its snout.

The ally looked at him with a mixture of terror and respect.

"What did she show you?" he whispered.

Jacob looked at the creature.

Its eyes… were different.

Deeper.

Full of unspeakable knowledge.

“The monster that comes,” he replied quietly.

The creature nodded at him.

**“You have found the first truth.

But remember… accepting it makes you part of me.”**

The cave began to tremble.

It echoed:

Go deeper.

Learn more.

Jakub knew one thing:

**This is only the beginning.**

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# **CHAPTER 6B: “When Jacob Refuses”**

*(Option B — full, long, brutal)*

The light in the creature’s hand trembled, as if beckoning him, promising not only knowledge… but also power.

Jakub pulled his hand away.

“No.”

“You refuse?” The creature sounded as if a thousand throats were saying it at once.

“Yes,” he said. “I will not trust something that feeds on human memories.”

The whispers in the cave changed their tone.

They became sharp, angry, like hundreds of voices screaming into the darkness.

The creature stiffened.

**“YOU DO NOT ACCEPT… A GIFT?”**

Argo bared his teeth.

The ally took a step back, drawing his blade.

The cave shook.

The walls began to move as if made of muscle, not stone.

The ceiling began to fall, as if to crush them.

The creature did not scream.

Its anger was a quiet, cold sigh:

**“YOU SHOULD NOT HAVE ENTERED HERE.”**

The cave began to close in like the throat of a giant beast.

The ceiling cracked, shedding shards of rock.

The whispers turned to screams.

Jacob shouted:

“We’re running!”

Argo reached the path in a single bound and sprinted toward the entrance. Jacob ran after him, his ally right beside him.

Behind them, step by step, a creature moved.

It wasn’t running.

It wasn’t lying down.

It simply… moved.

Like a shadow.

Like fog.

Like death.

It screamed:

**“GIVE ME BACK MY MEMORY!

GIVE ME BACK MY TIME!

GIVE ME EVEN YOURSELF!!!!”**

Before them, the path began to collapse.

Beneath them, a chasm opened, dark, bottomless.

Jacob grabbed Argo by the mane and leaped across the chasm. His ally joined him, but his leg slipped—Jacob caught it in the last gasp.

Veela.

The creature was approaching.

Its shadowy fingers were already within arm's reach.

Jacob yanked his ally up—and they ran.

They escaped the cave at the last second, as its walls slammed shut like a trap.

In the silence, for the first time in a long time, Jacob heard his own heart.

The ally breathed heavily.

"Are you alive...?" Jacob gasped.

"Yes... though I'd prefer... that thing stayed inside."

Argo barked, as if to say:

**WE NEVER GO BACK THERE.**

But the cave wouldn't leave them alone.

A whisper rose from within—a single one, but so loud it seemed to be right next to them:

**“This is only the beginning, Jacob.”**

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# **CHAPTER 6C: “When Jacob Tries to Deceive the Being”**

*(Option C—The Most Dangerous, the Darkest)*

Jakub extended his hand.

But only to give the impression that he was accepting the gift.

The being watched him; it had no eyes, but… it felt.

Its body pulsated like living smoke.

The light touched his hand—and in that same instant, Jacob withdrew his hand and threw himself to the side.

Argo leaped at the being, snarling, teeth ready to bite anything that even remotely resembled flesh.

The being…

…did not scream.

It did not become angry.

It began to **laugh**.

Echoing laughter, the laughter of beings long dead, laughter that had no right to exist.

**“YOU DECIDED ME.”**

**“SO I WILL DECIDE YOU.”**

The stones around them flowed like wax.

The cave changed shape.

The road behind them disappeared.

Argo leaped at the being—and passed through it as if through mist.

The ally screamed:

“It changes space! We are trapped!”

The being stretched out a shadowy arm and touched the ground.

Before them, figures rose from the stone.

People.

Hundreds.

Each with empty eyes.

All had faces that looked… familiar.

Jakub froze.

These were people who had been missing in this city for decades.

Each face—someone whose case had never been solved.

And now they were all looking at Jacob.

The entity whispered:

**“See, investigator?

The truth always finds a way.”**

Another figure slowly emerged from the shadows.

It was Jacob.

The other Jacob.

Perfectly replicated.

But his eyes were pitch black.

Argo howled at the sight.

The ally took a step back.

“It creates… a copy of you.”

The entity hissed:

**“You didn’t want my gift… so I’ll give you my double.”**

Shadow-Jacob stepped forward, smiling coldly.

Jacob knew one thing:

**This wasn’t a fight he could win with force.**

The trap was tearing them apart mentally, slowly turning the space into a nightmare.

Jacob grabbed Argo’s mane.

“We run. Now!”

Shadow-Jacob followed them.

The stone zombies followed them.

The creature watched them with a smile.

And the cave began to collapse.

Jacob heard whispers:

**“You tricked me… so I’ll keep tricking you…”

“…until you know if you’re the real you.”

“…until a shadow takes your place.”**

They ran out of the cave, but behind them… a second silhouette also appeared.

The other Jacob.

And it was no longer clear who was who.

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## **If you want, I can write:**

### ✔ Chapter 7A – continuation of the version in which Jacob accepted the truth

### ✔ Chapter 7B – continuation of the version in which Jacob refused

### ✔ Chapter 7C – continuation of the version in which Jacob now has his own dark doppelganger

Each chapter will be long, action-packed, and dark.

**Which version do we continue with? A, B, or C?**