Ace shares her past with Mel

In the dim neon glow of Iceworld’s Lower Levels, Ace breaks her usual guarded demeanor to offer Mel coffee from her rucksack. The gesture of warmth quickly gives way to a raw, unfiltered confession about her lost identity. As Ace recounts her life as a waitress—trapped in a monotonous cycle on a world that never felt like home—her words reveal a deep longing for belonging and purpose. The revelation underscores Ace’s fractured relationship with her past and hints at the cosmic displacement that defines her journey, while testing the fragile trust between her and Mel in the high-stakes hunt for the Dragonfire treasure. key_dialogue: [ ACE: Do you want some coffee? ACE: I worked as a waitress in a fast food cafe. Day in, day out, same boring routine. Some boring life. It was all wrong. It didn't feel like me that was doing it at all. I felt like I'd fallen from another planet and landed in this strange girl's body, but it wasn't me at all. ACE: I was meant to be somewhere else. Each night I'd walk home and I'd look up at the stars through the gaps in the clouds, and I tried to imagine where I really came from. I dreamed that one day everything would come right. I'd be carried off back home, back to my real mum and dad. ]