Finale

Content Warning: This section of the guide includes descriptions of graphic violence, death by suicide, self-harm, and death.

Still numb and weak from Paloma’s poison, Tella crawls to her mother’s body. Jacks then warns Tella that Gavriel, the Fate known as the Fallen Star, will return to life as all Fates do. When Jacks carries her away, Tella is too broken to fight him.

Jacks brings Tella to his lavish gambling parlor in University Circle. As he carries her through the crowd and up to his private rooms, Tella breaks down emotionally. She blames herself for altering fate by trying to save her mother, and she now believes that if she hadn’t interfered, Paloma might still be alive. Jacks offers little comfort, but he stays with her as she cries. Before long, however, Tella remembers that there is a Fate known as the Assassin, who has the power to travel through space and time. If she could find him, she might be able to rewrite the past and save her mother. Jacks warns her that this is a dangerous idea because the act of crossing timelines has made the Assassin dangerous and strange, and not everyone who travels with him returns. Instead, Jacks offers a reprieve from her pain by dulling her emotions for one night.