Chelsea Park searches for Kate after the second blackout of 48 hours. She finds Kate covered in Dominion blood at the observation deck, possessed by something inhuman with wrong eyes. Kate has no memory of the blackout or her actions.

Marcus tests Kate prediction - she says ship will emerge in Kepler sector. 18 hours later, corrupted vessel appears exactly where she said. Kate is real-time early warning.

Chen analyzes DNA evidence showing Nephilim markers in all victims plus tens of thousands of unknown carriers worldwide. A Northwestern geneticist confirms impossible three-parent DNA. Victim 17 dies with glowing eyes - Kramer is transforming, becoming more angel.

The Parley: neutral ground between armies. Petro and Hank meet Martin's party under white flags. Martin dismounts, studies Petro with grief and anger. Initial exchanges tense. Martin agrees to visit Citadel interior under truce. Delegation enters gates.

Petro enters the Citadel posing as grieving refugee and meets Elder Miriam, who warmly welcomes him. He encounters Father Aldric, a defected Church priest, and meets families who fled persecution. That evening, he shares meals and learns their stories.

Three weeks after Arcadia, Union General Darius Gray hosts Imperial Captain Andrew Jarvis for elaborate dinner, intending psychological torture and extraction. Darius reveals past: expelled from Ministry after castrating nobleman abusing toddler on Barlen.

Haatim tallies five peripheral ritual sites disrupted against the human cost: two allies dead, one critical, four wounded. Abigail reports that the entity Malakheth pull on her tether intensifies with each disruption.

Abigail and Haatim conduct a deep grounding session where she explores the corruption's architecture rather than fighting it. She discovers the corruption is a bidirectional tether connecting her to an ancient, pre-Belphegor entity that exists in a void.

Abigail fights three escalating demon engagements in a single day, each time drawing more power than intended. After losing five seconds to the corruption's full-clarity vision during the third fight, Arthur reveals she has entered the second stage of corruption progression—the offering...