diff --git a/assets/games/liminal/scenes/SceneInitial.xml b/assets/games/liminal/scenes/SceneInitial.xml
index b62395eb..9c9f579e 100644
--- a/assets/games/liminal/scenes/SceneInitial.xml
+++ b/assets/games/liminal/scenes/SceneInitial.xml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <vnscene name="SceneInitial" extend="scenes/SceneMonologue">
   <events>
-    <scene-change scene="vnscenes/ScenePrologue0" />
+    <scene-change scene="vnscenes/ScenePrologue1" />
   </events>
 </vnscene>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/assets/games/liminal/scenes/prologue/ScenePrologue1.xml b/assets/games/liminal/scenes/prologue/ScenePrologue1.xml
index 7878c6a2..9bdf9640 100644
--- a/assets/games/liminal/scenes/prologue/ScenePrologue1.xml
+++ b/assets/games/liminal/scenes/prologue/ScenePrologue1.xml
@@ -5,5 +5,73 @@
     <text>
       <string lang="en">I wake.</string>
     </text>
+
+    <text>
+      <string lang="en">I gasp. I close my eyes - I'm fine, I'm <font style="italics">fine</font>. I'm still here. Breathing.</string>
+    </text>
+
+    <text>
+      <string lang="en">That bucket was a dream. My death was a dream. I'm not dead.</string>
+    </text>
+
+
+    <text>
+      <string lang="en">
+        (Am I?)
+        (...)
+        (Aren't I?)
+      </string>
+    </text>
+
+    <text>
+      <string lang="en">Of course I'm not.</string>
+    </text>
+
+    <text>
+      <string lang="en">I exhale. My feet fall to the edges of my bed. Slowly, I raise myself to stand.</string>
+    </text>
+
+    <text>
+      <string lang="en">My fingers tremble by the edges of my leg: I curl my hand in. My nails catch on my skin.</string>
+    </text>
+
+    <text>
+      <string lang="en">They're sharp, pastel pink. Done for Prom Day today.</string>
+    </text>
+
+    <text>
+      <string lang="en">The dream didn't happen. How could it have? Prom Day hasn't happened yet.</string>
+    </text>
+
+    <text>
+      <string lang="en">
+        I'm fine.
+        (Didn't it happen?)
+        (It felt so...)
+        <font size="26" style="italics">(Real.)</font>
+      </string>
+    </text>
+
+    <!--
+      (Am I?)
+      (...)
+      (Aren't I?)
+      Of course I'm not. 
+      I exhale. My feet fall to the edges of my bed. Slowly, I raise myself to stand. 
+      My fingers tremble by the edges of my leg: I curl my hand in. My nails catch on my skin. They're sharp, pastel pink. Done for Prom Day today. 
+      The dream didn't happen. How could it have? Prom Day hasn't happened yet. 
+      I'm fine.
+      (Didn't it happen?)
+      (It felt so...)
+      (Real.)
+      I tidy the bedsheets. Pull the corners over the bed's edges, fluff up the pillows, pat away the sweat and the residue of a scream: my parents want it pretty. 
+      It wasn't real. I only had a visceral dream, sunken into my brain as an anchor to a sea, as a stone angel's crumbling visage, as a bird's descent off Devil Cradle's cliffs. That wasn't real.
+      No, of course not. 
+      My calendar says May 29th. I've got to prepare for Prom.
+      After all, if there is anything I will be, it is Prom Queen.
+      I've been chasing this moment since the beginning of time. Today is the finale. 
+      And I am nothing if not ready. 
+    -->
+
   </events>
 </vnscene>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/dawnshared/util/string.hpp b/src/dawnshared/util/string.hpp
index c9260ea2..32b76023 100644
--- a/src/dawnshared/util/string.hpp
+++ b/src/dawnshared/util/string.hpp
@@ -147,4 +147,22 @@ static inline std::string stringReplaceAll(
     startPos += replace.length();
   }
   return newString;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Joins a vector of strings into a single string, using a delimiter.
+ * 
+ * @param strings Vector of strings to join.
+ * @param delim Delimiter to join the strings with.
+ */
+static inline std::string stringJoin(
+  const std::vector<std::string> &strings,
+  const std::string &delim
+) {
+  std::string result;
+  for(size_t i = 0; i < strings.size(); i++) {
+    if(i > 0) result += delim;
+    result += strings[i];
+  }
+  return result;
 }
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/dawntools/vnscenetool/events/VNTextEventParser.cpp b/src/dawntools/vnscenetool/events/VNTextEventParser.cpp
index 67e90e59..d92ef3ec 100644
--- a/src/dawntools/vnscenetool/events/VNTextEventParser.cpp
+++ b/src/dawntools/vnscenetool/events/VNTextEventParser.cpp
@@ -22,8 +22,19 @@ int32_t VNTextParser::onParse(
   struct VNText *out,
   std::string *error
 ) {
+  std::string innerXml = node->innerXml;
+
+  // Split by newlines, then trim each line.
+  std::vector<std::string> lines = stringSplit(innerXml, "\n");
+  std::vector<std::string> finalLines;
+  for(auto it = lines.begin(); it != lines.end(); ++it) {
+    auto newLine = stringTrim(*it);
+    if(newLine.length() > 0) finalLines.push_back(newLine);
+  }
+  std::string finalXml = stringJoin(finalLines, "\n");
+
   out->language = values["lang"];
-  out->text = stringParser(node->innerXml, error);
+  out->text = stringParser(finalXml, error);
   return error->length() == 0 ? 0 : -1;
 }