"How can you dare refuse after what you've heard?" Vanessa demands, visibly trembling with rage, the world shaking around her as if in sympathy. "After what I told you? I thought you would understand! I thought I could trust you! But your betrayal will not go unpunished. Guards, kill him now!" There's nothing you can do to resist. You've just become vaguely aware of the throbbing of a poisoned implement that Vanessa seems to have injected into you upon your refusal. It looks like that's the reason why your muscles seized up and the world distorted around you. It's not even difficult for the guards to kill you as you fall to the floor limply, still wondering questions that will never be answered in this life.
Find answers to those question. Start your life over again from the first point that made a difference.