Content Warning: This section of the guide includes discussion of death, emotional abuse, and sexual content.

Sera awakens in Nyktos’s arms while Nektas and their other allies wreak havoc outside. Sera questions if she’s having a dream, but Nyktos assures her that he’s real. He is about to kill Kolis, but she tells him he can’t; it would put the safety of the realms in jeopardy. When that doesn’t convince him, she tells him that he needs to take the embers out of her as soon as possible. 

Elias, one of Kolis’s guards, arrives, and when Nyktos threatens to kill him, he reveals that he serves the true Primal of Life, not Kolis. He pledges himself to Sera. Attes arrives moments later and insists that they need to leave before Kyn arrives with backup. Before they go, Sera remembers the Star diamond. Neither Nyktos nor Attes can retrieve it, as Sera is the only one it will respond to. However, Nyktos resists the idea of her tapping into the embers again, knowing it will push her closer to death. Sera ignores him and goes back for it. When he tries to stop her, she reveals that his father’s soul is trapped in the diamond.