Tom

So the orphans throw the girl into the well and the last thing she sees is them looking down at her.

However, there's more to this folklore than just seeing the white hair.

As I've mentioned, it was considered a bad omen if you saw one.

However, they believed the best course of action was to avoid it.

Because if you managed to harm or worse, kill this white hair, they believed it would bring a much more severe curse upon you and your land.

Exactly like what befell the orphans.

I mentioned this earlier, but hidden throughout the game, you can find coffins of our characters.

Not just the girl and the boy, but all the characters.

And when you open them, you see the shadow of the character showing us what happened to them after this sacrifice.

Hood is shot, the boy is hanged, bandage is dealt a deadly blow, and Bucket is beaten and pushed off a ledge.

They killed the White Rabbit and so brought upon themselves a worse fate than just the war.

If this cult that had indoctrinated them knew about the rabbit omen, which led the kids to do what they did in the first place, the cult would also know the consequences of those actions.

The kids may have been mindless sheep, just thinking they were doing the right thing, but now they had doomed them all.

So maybe, in an attempt to save themselves, the cult killed the kids who killed the rabbit.

Maybe then, their world would be spared.

But all the kids are alive.

We're playing as them, so how could this be their death?

Well, think about it.

This world is full of nightmares, what look like exaggerated versions of the horrors these children witnessed.

And there's a time loop happening where, at the end of the game, we see the waters rise out of the well, bringing the dead girl with it, only for the boy to then be floating on an ocean and find her floating in the water, and for her to be alive again, just like the boy and all of his friends.