72-hour institutional build of the Integration Oversight Commission. Victoria and Brimstone develop consent protocols. Mirael negotiates Heavens participation.

Thomas explores surface hospital, witnesses patient transformation, escapes psychiatric ward. In fourth-floor research lab discovers five-level underground layout. Harrow warns destroying the Heart may annihilate trapped souls. Thomas displaced to manor grounds.

Abdullah strode through the empty Command Deck, his heart thumping against his ribs like a caged animal. His stomach churned with a mixture of anxiety and disbelief, and his legs turned to rubber beneath him.

Alexis Chen presents a dangerous alternative strategy to the war council: use Kate to locate and strike the Dominion command structure instead of sacrificing her to the seal. Despite only thirty percent success odds, the plan offers a chance at conventional victory.

Chelsea watches Kate deteriorate. Dark circles, weight loss, tremors. Using her ability is destroying her. Chelsea confronts Marcus - this must stop.

Nine survivors scatter to different destinations two weeks after the siege. Petro and Suzanne head south toward new sanctuaries with fragile reconciliation. Hank travels north deliberately drawing Church hunters away from other refugees, protecting sanctuaries.

Months later. Petro working at Citadel helping refugees, teaching knights-turned-refugees, training with Hank to understand magic and history. Uneasy friendship with Hank from shared trauma. Elder praises his work but Petro knows he can't undo past. News: Church marshaling larger army for assault.

Two years after the Rift, Kristi receives three Emperor's Blood super soldiers and orders to assassinate Darius Gray on Tellus. Abdullah confronts Kristi about genocide. When Abdullah refuses and resigns, Kristi sentences him to death for treason and imprisons him.

Between the anchor assault and the final push, Petrillo meets Cara and the legacy children - adults now, survivors of Bishop Glasser's experiments who were rescued by Arthur and Dominick. Cara tells how Dominick carried her out at age seven.