It changes again... a ship appears on the horizon, everybody is rescued, and it sails away... until it's just Mau on his own in the darkness, fighting furiously and hopelessly against Locaha... and now the liquid in the cauldron is a deep, clear blue.

The apple brings you visions of Aather, without darkness -- everybody coming whole out of the book, the Personae's bonds shattered, freedom and hope.