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A crux drops into the courtyard, killing soldiers on impact. Ransom gets Odessa behind a road spike and charges the monster.
Halston loses a leg to the crux’s talon. Tillia reaches Halston and uses her belt as a tourniquet.
Luella, still in the courtyard helping a wounded soldier, is too slow to escape. Despite Ramsey screaming for Luella to run, the crux kills her. Ransom sees it happen and attacks in a rage, but the monster shakes him off and disappears into the sky.
Odessa races to find Evie hiding under the bed with Faze. She arms herself, packs her journal and the three books from the hidden cellar, and heads for the dungeons. As Odessa and Evie slip out the back, Banner steps out of the shadows with his sword drawn. Banner has learned that Ransom is Ramsey’s son and wants revenge for his brother and mother. He intends to kill Odessa because she’s the person who matters most to Ransom.
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Banner attacks Odessa. She lands cuts on Banner’s thigh and arm, but when Zavier rounds the corner, Banner throws a knife into Zavier’s gut. Odessa sinks her knives into Banner, killing him.
Zavier tells Evie he loves her before losing consciousness. Odessa can’t save Zavier. She blows the Treow warning whistle and takes Evie away.
Ransom finds Odessa and Evie near the barracks and pushes them clear as the crux strikes again. He tells Odessa it’s not safe and asks her to run. Ransom removes his cuff and puts it on Odessa’s wrist. She understands it’s the map to Allesaria. Ransom tells Odessa to head toward Treow and that if he doesn’t arrive within two days, she is to take Evie out of Turah and do what needs to be done. He trusts her.
They part with “I love yous.” Ransom turns to hold off the crux. As Odessa runs, she looks back and sees the monster lifting Ransom into the sky.
In the dungeon tunnel, Brother Dime is waiting with Freya. He leads Odessa and Evie out through the hatch and into the forest.
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Ransom surveys the courtyard in the aftermath. Cathlin is standing over Luella’s covered body. Both Halston and Zavier are alive but fighting for their lives in the infirmary.
Ransom walks to a body lying alone in the center of the courtyard. After Odessa and Evie ran, the crux carried Ransom into the sky. He drove his sword into the creature’s chest, and they fell together. Ransom woke at dawn.
The crux left behind not a monster’s corpse but a human woman’s body with red hair. Cathlin confirms she has never seen or heard of this before.
Ransom cuts a lock of the crux’s hair and tucks it into his vest alongside Zavier’s circlet. He orders a soldier to burn the body, then walks toward the gates. When Cathlin asks where he’s going, Ransom tells her he’s going to find his wife.
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