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And so it was,

• Alcor, while tending to Almeisan's wounds, pounced upon her and pinned her down before running away in shame as her fellow exorcists discovered them; later, she was comforted by Etzlitotec, the Princess of Spring, who gifted her a flower as Almeisan found Alcor's hiding spot. She danced with her, and destroyed the flower in horror.
• Capella defended their choices with Alcor to their friend Cursa, and discussed her partnership with Almeisan. This was interrupted by Lilii Borea of Southwatch bearing a symbol of a blood debt in the name of Capella's disgraced House Horologii. She wished her to slay the woman Lerna, who she believed to be a Mistaken who was seducing her son Izar; Capella was skeptical but honor-bound to aid her, if not for her traitorous parents, then for her beloved sister.
• Almeisan performed a new dance with her rival, Kerhah, of light and shadows, and moved the crowds with her performance of the shadow. Her success was soured by learning that her childhood friend Eltanin had grown closer to Kerhah in her absences as a knight of the stars, and that they too had heard the same intruding song during the performance- a song sung by Etzlitotec, who haunts Almeisan with her voice and now possibly Eltanin as well, who was driven to cry at its beauty and in fear on hearing it.
• Sadal Melik hunted a burning-hot Mistaken in the city of Tallstar, slaying it yet setting fire to the homes of the nobility in the process. On the final blow, the demon wished them to tell Al Nair, their daughter, that it yet loved her. Later, they intruded on a fashionable party to speak with their daughter as the nobility showed their disdain for them, and spoke to Al Nair of the Mistaken. Al Nair admitted to nothing, but will not forgive her mother for their deeds.

We've learned that the treachery of Capella's parents may have involved the invention of time itself; that the exorcists of the people are also a manner of medical doctor and not a part of the knighthood; that Eltanin has a twinkgender; that Alcor has toebeans on her hindlegs; and that Sadal Melik doesn't have dad energies but that Capella does.

In me there is a Spring
That lasts forever
Such is the warmth I bring
To all who shiver

To those the stars have crossed
I bid you to come forth
To those who are lost
Look to the north…

The night may be long
But don’t despair my friends
The sun will rise again

The dark cold of winter
May seem to not relent
But Spring will always come in the end