The first battle for the city erupts. Viekko charges out into the battlefield to disable the rail guns, Althea, Isra and Cronus hole up...
A party commences at the *sala*. Althea watches the rest of the team becoming strangely entranced by Cytherean society. In the process Althea stumbles...
Viekko, wounded and delirious from the Haze fights Sergeant Carr to prove himself to the _Perfiduloi_ and a new alliance forms after a sacrifice...