Part 5: "Confession of Failure"

Nautika: ...
Nautika: Is this ... the end?
She seems to be nothing but consciousness now—if even that—yet she still clutches a pendant to her chest.
Nautika: Where did it all go wrong, Nautika?
Nautika: Your expeditions came to nothing.
Nautika: You ate your poor innocent reindeer.
Nautika: You ignored Áddjá's warnings and got your friends killed.
Nautika: Hah ... So, Nautika ... Where do you think you're going now?
Nearly dissolved into the sludge around her, she confesses her sins, though her repentance is far from pure.
Nautika: I don't know ...
Nautika: But ... I won't stay here.
Nautika: Even after all this ... I have to see for myself ...
Nautika: I have to find the answer ...
Nautika: I won't stop until I do.
A thought like that is indigestible to the darkness. It leaves her to wander, weak but persistent.
Nautika: I haven't written in my diary today.
Nautika: What's the point if I don't do it every day?
Her faint consciousness drifts blindly through the dark, searching for a diary that has already written its last day.
Nautika: Wh-Where is it?
Nautika: My diary ...
Then, a sound. A faint rustling, nearly drowned out by the stomach's contractions.
Nautika: Oh, there you are—
A thick, weathered diary is half-sunken in the black sludge, its pages promising to bear faithful witness to all that happened.
Nautika: W-What?
She crawls toward it, this fellow captive of the darkness ... only for the diary to suddenly burst into flames.
Nautika: No, no ... not you too!
???: Nautika ...
???: But Nautika ...
???: Do you actually believe that a diary could tell you the truth?
Nautika: W-What are you ...?
???: You've written and drawn and scribbled and revised every day of your life in that diary.
???: But still you let that chronicle of failures fool you.
???: Deep down, you know the truth that isn't written there.
Villager I: My goodness, Nautika! That's it! That's our girl!
Villager II: Mother Spirit bless you, little Nautika. Congratulations!
She bows her head as the floral wreath slips past her eyes and falls triumphantly over her chest.
A medal, roaring cheers, and thunderous applause—all for a child who, on her very first try, has claimed victory at the reindeer race.
Nautika: ...
Nautika: I-I won the race?
Rolf: Of course you did, ráhkis. No one's faster than you.
Rolf: I'm so proud of you.
Nautika: Áddjá ...
???: ...
Nautika: But I won the race ...
Spirit I: Of course you did.
Spirit I: And that wasn't the first time either. Remember?
Nautika: So I didn't ...
Spirit II: It was only a nightmare—a thing that never happened. Your reindeer was fine. You two won the race for the next four straight years.
Villager I: Nautika again! Back-to-back champion! She must be a reindeer-whisperer!
Villager II: You never cease to amaze us ...
Nautika: ...
Nautika: But ... Áddjá, and then me and my friends—we went to Antarctica together ...
Spirit I: Nautika, how could you not know your friends better than that?
Spirit II: Exactly. After all, you are all ... on the same page.
Nautika: Friele, Áddjá ...
Nautika: He's not himself anymore.
Years of mental frenzy have long silenced the once wise and fearless expedition leader.
Nautika: I-I want to go to Antarctica.
Nautika: He said that the Mother Spirit would guide us along the right path.
Nautika: If I don't reach the end of this path, then ... then I'll never know if it was the right thing to do.
Nautika: Goodbye, Friele. You three wait for me to come back!
Friele: Why are you doing this, Nautika?
Nautika: Friele, trust me ...
Aase: We're not doubting you, but you're talking about going to Antarctica alone—did it ever cross your mind that we could go together?
Koht: Eanu Rolf pulled off something incredible! We should finish the journey he started.
Nautika: You ... all believe in Áddjá?
Friele: We've never doubted him. Not for a moment.
Aase: We're not just going to sit around waiting for you to solve the mystery by yourself.
Friele: We're coming with you.
Nautika: R-Really?!
Nautika: Oh, Friele, Aase, Koht … I'm so happy ...
They embrace, just as they did on their first adventure.
Even though they know their journey will be unlike any before.