What makes a hero? Is it doing what is right no matter the cost? Perseverance in the face of great hardship? Or is it self-sacrifice without hesitation? Shortly after her attack on Madison, the Simurgh receives a signal, and she abandons the Earth to follow. What she finds is the fractured afterimages of a dead civilisation, and an entity intent on building her into a saviour. But pulling herself away from the evils of her past is a road tolled by a ferocious cost. For to shed the weight of her terrible misdeeds, she must witness her horrors from the other side, or risk never truly living at all.