The gang sits in silence, tries to collect their thoughts
Reflects on the white robes, and the pain they have wrought
Ghael doesn't scold the girls, but she's surely far from warm
Her attention turns elsewhere- Elluryah must be warned
Astrid's intuition seems to her to be verified
Ghael merely adopted weapons- it can hardly be denied
Grub does his best to dismiss Kat's guilt
"It wasn't quite ideal but no one was killed
The odds were surely stacked, no one could say you failed"
It means a lot to Kat, but would mean more from Ghael
Who with Grub meets Ghenim, to discuss things with him
She warns the Novis is back, and things are looking grim
Grub is ashamed to admit a sucker punch took him out
"This weak little body can't do much in such a bout"
Seems everything is falling apart and nothing is fine
Kat looks up to the moon and pleas softly for a sign
Astrid catches her reflection, sees what she's become now
Kat caused this transformation- or at least allowed
For years Astrid's used only volt gems to try and close the gap
But it still took her death to finally outdo Kat
With a bag Astrid leaves, says don't expect her return
Until every branch of The Novis has been burned
She'll do what neither Kat nor Ghael were able to
No matter what it takes, Astrid vows now she will push through
Ghael has grown grey, Ghenim's might was drained away
The dragonborn Atlas was lost back on that fateful day
Garth heads to Eredet to check the Nexis in the mines
What fate awaits at the end of all these fraying lines?
Seems everything is falling apart and nothing is fine
Kat looks up to the moon and pleas softly for a sign
Seems everything is falling apart and nothing is fine
Kat looks up to the moon and pleas softly for a sign
A few moons later, in the middle of the night
Grub awakens, finds his throat feeling tight
A routine thing- nothing to excite
But the stone he yields this time is made of pure light