Last Light in the Dark

Tomas Grenn, a blacksmith from Greenhollow, enjoys a peaceful life with his wife Elsa and two children before receiving a conscription notice. Accompanied by Father Aldous's proclamation of a righteous war against Valorheim's blood mages, Tomas is drafted to fight.

Frieda manages hunters while preparing to meet Vatican priest Mikael about capturing Curtis. She's caught off guard when Abigail asks 'when can we go home'—meaning Frieda, not a place—and reflects on the adoption papers hidden in her briefcase.

Arthur and Niccolo explore dark tunnels, finding children's carvings, drawings, and sedatives. The physical evidence breaks through Arthur's remaining skepticism—children don't scratch names into concrete over mythology. He now speaks of their abilities as fact.

Kate and Lyle escape the police raid by sneaking past the SWAT team. They steal a car and drive east. Lyle learns about Victor, Kate's past with him, and Helen. Despite Kate's intentions to protect him, Lyle insists on helping her because they're partners and Victor must be stopped.

Exit kitchen to garden discovering blue flowers that are trap, smell flower and black out, wake buried alive in coffin, break through rotted bottom into crypt below

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The night before a major assault on the fortress of Valtherion, Aldric confides he knows he will die - he felt his daughter's death. The attack begins at dawn. In the brutal fighting, Aldric is killed by a Karthian officer, fulfilling his premonition.