EP42: Reunions

Livius also feels intense guilt for not rescuing Lady Livia sooner, as he was the first person below decks to free her during the battle on the city of Xahar's shores.

Reunions Nilshli completes her tea with the elderly custodian of Aurelius Field, who asks her for help. A ghostly woman has been appearing in the dark of the moon among the new section of the hallowed field now used as a graveyard. She fears that something terrible will happen if this continues for too much longer. Marcus spies his fallen comrade's wife Jasmine at the edge of the celebration he wheeled into being. Jasmine claims she knew Merick wasn't coming home because he had visited her in a dream. She affirms her love for Marcus, yet tells him she doesn't want to see him again anytime soon. Lord Titus bounds out to meet the Clipper with his love, Lady Lucretia Vale. They share a moment of complete joy in one another's arms. Reality thunders in, however, in the form of a dark reunion, that of Titus with his twin sister Livia. At the very end of her abduction, Livia's assailant had attempted to kill her by thrusting her head into an urn of acid. Although prevented from finishing this grisly task, the lady is nevertheless horribly disfigured. Even in the face of personal agony, however, Livia beseeches Titus to carry her to a critical meeting with a faction of the Death Tamers who have recently come to Juramentum seeking shelter on the clipper that brought both ladies back to Juramentum Ride several new chosen one of them named Devran. This young man later claims to be Wace's twin brother, attempting to embrace her while the now cautious advisor maintains her guard Weisa adopts a measured wait and see stance in regards to this new development. After an initial forceful moment of demanding deeper answers from the apparently happy Go lucky Devran Marcus son Livius faces a crisis of faith as his father reveals his allegiance resides no longer with Quaylithon, Lord of Light, but with Taweia, Goddess of Justice. Livius also feels intense guilt for not rescuing Lady Livia sooner, as he was the first person below decks to free her during the battle on the city of Xahar's shores. He curses at his father for the first time in his short life, running off in agony. As dusk of this frenetic day approaches, Lady Vale prepares to address the entire city after telling Titus in no uncertain terms he must take full command of it immediately as his grandsire is now deceased. Against this backdrop, Grip receives a surprise of a lifetime as he Attempts to go to ground in the Kithgi Arbor. Foreign.