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Narrator: The hardest battles are fought in the mind. He gave her the sword with which to fight in more ways than one. And she gave him her word never to surrender. All she needed was a little help. A little hope.
Furies: … Senua… We’re here… Hello… We’re back. We found you. Where have you been? There she is…we thought we lost you. You need us. We’re here to help you. Don’t worry. You don’t have to do this alone anymore. Silence is lonely. There’s a way in. Look up! She’s so clever! Go up into the mountain. Just up there. We won’t leave you. She needs us. You’ve done so well! We will help you. There’s a door. You can do it! You can see it. Come on Senua.
Senua: Go away. I’m not listening.
Furies: Don’t open the door. What is it? She can feel it. No. Stay back! Stay back! Stay back! Get back!
Senua: What’s in there?
Zynbel: Get back! A great beast guards Helheim. Garm is its name. And it knows you’re here, Senua. It can smell your stink!
Furies: Stay in the light. She has to find Dillion! You have to go in!
Zynbel: What are you afraid of, Senua? How will you save Dillion if you are too much of a coward to step in the shadows?
Senua: They can’t stop me!
Zynbel: Then do it!
Furies: Go! Run! Keep going! She won’t make it!
Zynbel: The beast is stalking you from the shadows! Your sword is useless here!
Furies: Keep going! Run! The Gods are in her mind! Open the door! She can’t! Get the torch!
Zynbel: Don’t be fooled. The beast is still here. Can you feel it?
Galena: Senua!
Furies: Who is it? It’s the beast! No, it’s Galena, her mother! It’s a trick!
Zynbel: No, it’s a trick.
Senua: Mother?
Galena: Do you hear them?
Zynbel: Don’t fall for it.
Senua: It’s me, Senua!
Galena: It’s so loud! So full of hate! I just want to help them.
Senua: Tell me what to do.
Galena: Your father wants them to go away. He only hurts me to silence them.
Senua: But he’s gone now.
Galena: But they always come back. He says I will die if I go with them. But they say that I am already dead.
Senua: No, please.
Galena: And they want me with them.
Senua: Stop!
Galena: That’s why they crawl through the walls.
Senua: Don’t listen to them.
Galena: Do you see them? Do you see their faces?
Furies: The darkness is stealing your memories. It’s not her! Yes, it is!
Senua: Mother!
Galena: He’s coming! Senua, help me!
Senua: How?
Galena: Get me out of here.
Senua: Don’t go! She shouldn’t be here. She escaped the darkness. She took her own life to escape it.
Furies: It’s just another trick! She’s gone! The runes. Find them!
Narrator: She can’t remember when it started. When her mother lost her smile. Her eyes gazing past her towards a world she could not see. This is what happens if you reach for the underworld, he said. It was a lot to take in for a child and the first time she felt the cold chill of fear.
Furies: Her torch is going out! The darkness will come again. She hasn’t got much time.
Narrator: I don’t talk much about her father, Zynbel. I suppose I just didn’t want to risk upsetting her. But it doesn’t matter now, does it?
Furies: She has it! What’s the next? Two more to find! Why is she doing this? It’s pointless! A trick. The beast has been here. Keep going. She has to go under. She can’t. The torch will go out! She can do it! The light’s out! Run! Get to the light! Get to the light! Stop! Stop in the light! You’re safe in the light. Get to the next light! Run! Look! Fire! She has to get it! There’s the torch! Take it! It will keep you safe! Now you can see! She can find the rune! There! The runes. Can you see them? She has it! One more to find! What if there is nothing behind the door?
Narrator: This place. It reminds her of the isolating suffocating darkness she lived through as a young girl. Imprisoned in her room at night, the faces in the dark, coming through the walls. She once thought everyone could see them. I mean, that’s what children say all the time, isn’t it? That there are monsters in the dark. By the time she realised that only she could see them, her father, Zynbel, could see the monster in her.
Furies: The light won’t save her now. Fight! Use your sword! She did it. You can’t go anywhere without the light. Take the torch and move. She’s lighting the torch to keep the darkness away. You have all the runes! She has to go back to the door! Save her mother!
Zynbel: Do you feel it? The beast is crawling into your mind, searching for weakness. First it found your mother and used her to trap you in here.
Senua: Did you see her die? I don’t remember. I was only five. They told me she escaped the darkness, and that she is with the Gods.
Furies: Go through the door. You can save your mother. Where is she? It’s a trick!
Senua: But what if they lied? What if the darkness took her and trapped her here?
Zynbel: It’s a trap! The beast is coming! How stupid can you be?
Furies: Hold on!
Senua: No! No! No!
Zynbel: WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?!
Senua: No! No!
Zynbel: You’ve lost him! It’s over!
Furies: The darkness is back! Get out!
Zynbel: Without his head you will never bring his soul back! His fate is sealed.
Senua: Dillion!
Zynbel: Now it can see you at your weakest: the time you suffered as a child at the hands of your father, Zynbel, while you pined for Dillion.
Zynbel: Do you remember that darkness, Senua? The beast is bringing it back.
Senua: Mother. Why did you leave me? This darkness. It’s spreading. Father’s keeping me away from the others. Away from Dillion. I won’t give up. I’m not going to rot here. I’m going to find Dillion.
Furies: She can’t go there. There’s no light! She has to! She’ll die when the torch goes out. Zynbel was right. Zynbel was trying to save her from the darkness. But she never listen. What did she do? She’s lighting the torch! She’ll be safe. What’s her plan? Now she can go through. No she can’t. She can do it! You have to keep running! Faster! Faster! Force it! Force the bridge down! She’s fallen! Get up!
Narrator: Dillion… she can’t help but think of him. A tender guiding flame in a world so black.
Furies: There’s still further to go! He’s close. She can feel it. Keep the torch alight!
Narrator: The longer it burned, the more she convinced herself that there was nothing beyond its reach. How little separates us from what we fear.
Furies: The beast is near! Keep looking for Dillion! Don’t let the torch go out! The beast! It’s coming! The darkness is coming! Go quickly!
Dillion: Come back to me. Come back! Do you hear me?
Senua: I hear you! I’m coming for you! I’m coming!
Furies: The torch has gone out! The darkness is here! The head! Run! There he is! Keep going! The light! She can see it!
Dillion: I see you!
Furies: The beast has Dillion! Think, Senua! Find him!
Senua: No! You’re not taking him from me!
Zynbel: I warned you, Senua. I warned you not to come here. I can smell your fear.
Senua: No!
Zynbel: You betrayed your Gods.
Furies: Dillion is yours. Protect him! If you lose him, you lose everything!
Senua: I’m leaving with him!
Zynbel: You turned your back on me. That is why Dillion will rot in Hel!
Furies: You have to fight! Fight for Dillion!
Zynbel: Come into my shadow!
Narrator: People think of evil as an unnatural invisible force, and so invoke the Gods for protection. But evil can come from the hand behind the Gods: a familiar hand, cold and cruel. He tries to fix her with his… rituals. Kept her trapped in that hole. She couldn’t say which was worse… the darkness or the monster that her father had become. She couldn’t fight them both. And so she left. Headed for the one ray of light that shone down on her. If she had stayed, she wouldn’t have survived. But… maybe Dillion would still be alive…
Senua: I’m so sorry, my love.
Narrator: She will save his soul, even if, this time, she can’t save her own.
Zynbel: Forgive me, Senua. I know you have no reason to trust me anymore.
Furies: The shadow! Listen. Don’t trust it.
Zynbel: But believe this. It was my mission to make you hate, to hate the darkness with a passion so great, that it would focus your mind on this quest. For without it… I feared you would have let go of this life. All this time I wanted to protect you from this truth that would have destroyed you a long time ago. But you have conquered your darkness at every turn. You deserve to see behind the veil of darkness.
Senua: Then take me into the mountain.
Furies: He wants us to trust him.
Senua: As deep as we can go.
Zynbel: I won’t stand in your way. You will not survive what is in there.
Senua: I know.