Dark Age

Content Warning: This section of the guide contains discussion of graphic violence, cursing, illness and death, child death, animal cruelty and death, physical abuse, sexual content, and emotional abuse.

Lysander, preparing to enact his plan, receives the Horn of Helios (a relic traditionally sounded at the start of races) from Glirastes and is then interrupted by Alexandar and Rhonna wanting to see him. He says he is indisposed, and they apologize for interrupting, offering him a bottle of brandy.

Atlas recites a poem from his cell while Darrow and Screwface are outside. The evacuation of the Republic’s forces is to take place the following day, and Darrow senses that something is wrong, particularly with “Cato.” While watching surveillance footage of Cato sleeping, Darrow has a moment of recognition. He rechecks Cato’s DNA, confirming that he is actually Lysander. He orders the destruction of Glirastes’s EMP device and then calls Alexandar and Rhonna, who are still with Lysander, telling them Cato’s true identity and warning them not to confront him.

Lysander, Alexandar, and Rhonna roam Glirastes’s museum, and Lysander resists the urge to correct the others when they make incorrect remarks about the collection.