The Odysseides still keep the house where Lore last lived with them. A bus sits in front of the house with a tent erected between the building and the bus’s door. The Odysseides are either moving something or evacuating. Castor uses his godly power to open the door of the building next to the Odysseides hall, and the group climbs stairs until they have a view of the Odysseide roof. They find an access door guarded by three cloaked figures. Van uses a drone to shoot tranquilizer darts at the guards. While Castor and Athena open the door, Lore and Van bind the guards, finding each with “A tattoo of the Kadmides’ mark” on his arm (171).

Van and Lore take the guard’s earpieces and join Castor and Athena at the open trapdoor. It overlooks the main room of the building from behind a glass dome. Below, Kadmides raid the building. The Odysseides are bound, and at the center of it all, Wrath stands with “his hand around Heartkeeper’s throat” (172).

Wrath’s voice comes through the earpieces. If Heartkeeper tells him how to open the Odysseides’s impenetrable vault, he will “allow those men who kneel to me to live” (173).