The Atlas Six

Content Warning: This section includes mentions of past domestic abuse.

Reina

In the current lecture, the group discusses luckiness and unluckiness. Reina has no trouble understanding the balance between the two, and the necessity for sacrifice to balance out power. When Atlas arrives, Libby asks him about the elimination process and he answers that they will need to select someone by the end of the month but does not share any other information. Reina concludes that Libby is the only one who does not know about the elimination.

Tristan

Tristan is having a moral and existential crisis about his role in the Society. Eventually, he comes up with a plan to determine whether Callum is manipulating him and realizes that the latter has been influencing his emotions without his knowledge.

Libby

Libby finds Atlas in his office after Nico tells her the truth about the elimination process. Disbelieving, she probes Atlas, who tells her that magic needs a sacrifice to stay balanced. Libby, confused and angry, leaves and feels betrayed when she realizes that Tristan’s trolley problem was not a hypothetical question.

Parisa

Dalton asks Parisa what she saw in his head. Parisa requests he let her inside his mind again, and he gives her five minutes.