Eldrin Drosk, Boreal Paleclaw and Ekdíkisi Tintreach had suffered an entirely different fate to that of Hatsu or Dash. Captured after the disaster surrounding the square, they were transported by ship to the penitentiary and separated almost immediately upon arrival.

The party is scattered across and around the square after the activation of the pillars. Dash Heidmann remains close to the square in his Lucius Shadowbane disguise, Eos is surrounded by members of the Crisis Response Unit, Eldrin Drosk is being pursued through an alleyway, and Boreal Paleclaw is wounded and desperately trying to escape the executioner.

The morning of the Purity Edict finally arrived. After everything that had brought them to Palperroth, the group awoke rested, prepared, and painfully aware that the day ahead could change the Wandering Isles forever.

Dash and Lysa searched the square for signs of anti-magic devices, concealed mechanisms or trapdoors. Dash carefully mapped possible routes to and from the sacrificial platform where Remington Maleficum was due to be executed in only two days.

Boreal attempts to contact Remington Maleficum magically, but receives no response. He shares the failed attempt with Hatsu as the group prepares for the approaching Purity Edict.

The silence after the destruction is the first thing Dash Heidmann notices. The house is gone, erased into a clean absence, yet there had been no roar, no shockwave, no thunderous collapse. Just a flash, and then nothing but a hole in the ground.

Dash Heidmann returns to his childhood home and finds something waiting for him: a black card hidden specifically for him, marked only with "9". Whatever it means, the message is deliberate. He takes it in, then returns to the others as the group brings the boat in, parks it, and locks it into place.

Just before the group leaves, Eos takes a quiet mental note of the scales of Minerva, the gift once given to her in a temple of the goddess long ago. They are unbalanced now, and that imbalance feels uncomfortably reflective of her own turmoil.

Hatsu Toshitsugu begins by seeking out his mother, Kokoro Toshitsugu, and is met with clear relief and happiness at seeing him again. She explains that their people are already trying to understand the changing state of the island, tracking the wildlife and strange growth to work out what must be done next.

As the voyage continued, the mood aboard the ship softened just enough for quieter conversations to rise through the tension. Boreal spoke about what it had been like growing up with Hatsu, describing it with a fondness that sat easily beneath the teasing.

The voyage begins in uneasy quiet, with Weslyn Theiwyse seeking out a private moment with Amaedrianna Blüdfist before the rest of the ship settles into motion.

Amaedrianna is reassured that Weslyn has not yet found whatever Dr. Harrow is looking for, or whatever he himself is meant to find. She admits she has not found what she is looking for either. Dash brings her fully up to speed: the group plans to move the Egg tomorrow. It is currently fifty feet below ground, secured in vault #2.

The day began beneath the weight of Eos’s vision. After seeing Dash, Weslyn, and Isolde killed in the museum, Eos begged Boreal to magically contact Hatsu and tell him to come back. The problem was that Hatsu was still on the ship with them, and Boreal’s message was far louder than it needed to be. Hatsu soon entered the room, finding Eos frightened and desperate for his help.

That warmth overwhelmed him. In the cave, Hatsu stood because he saw something new: a path, like dust flickering in light. He followed it deeper and found the bee resting on a tiny branch of a small sakura tree left behind in the darkness. As he focused on it, his hands and body grew warm. Normally, his power leaned toward shadow, but in that moment he understood what he had truly been praying to: the Mother of Light, creator of shadows. He understood her as the one who gives space, protects from heat, and burns things down when necessary.

Weslyn woke beside the hole, only for Delphini Urging to emerge soon after and tell him that he had saved her. He was in no mood for ceremony and simply told her to keep up as they set off in search of the stone.

The moment began in tension and urgency. Eos called out to Weslyn, her voice sharp with panic, begging him to stop. Whatever he was doing.. whatever he was reading.. felt wrong to her. Weslyn, however, raised a hand and asked for more time. He was close to something important, something he couldn’t abandon now.

Eos chased Ekdíkisi through an unwelcoming forest beneath dark moons. Once two minds sharing one body, they now inhabited separate bodies.

In Anbudon, the group begins the day under the shadow of the mistake Dash made the previous session, when he accidentally revealed the location of his family to the King’s Guard. That reality lingers heavily over everything that follows.

Amaedrianna Blüdfist finally re-joins the group carrying fresh ideas, practical concerns, and a clearer sense of how the heist might actually be pulled off. The conversation turns quickly toward planning, but almost immediately she asks the obvious question: where is Dash?