[Suzerain of Sheol]

Crowned with thorns... and pain... was he. Raised our hands, and slew him. Utterly.

In shaken silence, the group finally departs Thasos, those who remain alive boarding the APC scarcely comprehending what they have been witness to. Asasiah is laid across several seats to rest, no efforts by any of them able to rouse her from the coma that has claimed her, but she seems to be in no danger. They leave the dead behind.

A course is set, finally, for Anatolia and the bastion offered by the Seven Churches. It will be a day and more before they arrive on land, with a long trek into the dominions of Per'gammum ahead.