Althea secretly follows the *Rainha* and finds out what the women of Cytherea are afraid of. Meanwhile Isra sees a ruined farm and learns...
Isra returns to the Sala to confront the Rainha. But the depth of the Cytherean ruler's brutality becomes painfully clear.
Viekko, wounded and delirious from the Haze fights Sergeant Carr to prove himself to the _Perfiduloi_ and a new alliance forms after a sacrifice...