Raven's Shadow

Haatim and Dominick conversation about Arthur preparing to sacrifice himself. Dominick sees the signs - weapons catalogued, secret calls to Frieda, the quiet voice of a man making arrangements.

Major corruption episode. The corruption offers Abigail a vision of total power - a golden city without pain, fear, or love. She nearly succumbs before realizing love has been surgically removed. She fights back using specific memories of the people she loves.

Belphegor targets Haatim during combat to force Abigail into an emotional surge. Eight demons ignore Petrillo to attack Haatim, and Abigail detonates with involuntary power. The lever - love as weapon - is demonstrated explicitly.

Emma has been up all night compiling three weeks of engagement data and discovers Belphegor's attacks are precisely calibrated titration—a scientific experiment to find Abigail's corruption breaking point.

On the safe house rooftop, Abigail waits for Haatim after the church. When he joins her, they have their most honest conversation: Haatim describes the real Nida; Abigail admits the corruption is replacing pieces of her identity and she cannot always tell which thoughts are hers.

Haatim confronts the demon possessing his sister Nida in an abandoned church, with the full team providing perimeter support. Nida surfaces briefly to beg him not to come back. When Haatim attempts exorcism, both Nida and the demon scream identically—confirming they are too integrated to separate.

From Petrillo's perspective, Arthur and Haatim argue over strategy—attack Belphegor now versus wait—with Dominick intervening to end it. Later, Petrillo and Emma share a quiet midnight kitchen moment, the first time they use each other's first names, finding a brief pause of humanity amid the war.

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...

During a supply run, Petrillo and Dominick witness a coordinated mass possession of civilians in a commercial district—a deliberate demonstration by Belphegor.