Recaps

Leonard investigated Dawn Dantès and searched old cases for a link between him and the secret organization that worshiped The Fool. The search led him to suspect Sherlock Moriarty was connected too, while Klein’s recurring nightmare left him seeking psychotherapy from Miss Justice.

• Leonard argued that Dawn Dantès could not be cleared of suspicion because he had no alibi during the Chanis Gate infiltration, and Cindy and Bob agreed to investigate him further.
• Leonard assigned Cindy to monitor Dawn Dantès, Bob to review the sewer explosion, and himself to search files for other neighborhood and Aurora Order incidents.
• Leonard traced connections between the Aurora Order, the Black Emperor cases, and Sherlock Moriarty, finding that Sherlock had been attacked in the Jason Beria case and had reported the Intis ambassador case.
• Leonard concluded that Sherlock Moriarty might have appeared on the fringes of the Great Smog incident and wondered whether Sherlock and Dawn belonged to the organization worshiping The Fool.
• Klein woke from another nightmare of Foggy Town and Panatiya, then asked Gehrman Sparrow to contact Miss Justice about arranging psychotherapy.

Audrey agreed to meet with World above the gray fog to treat his psychological distress, while Hibbert learned that the Nighthawks were investigating her neighborhood and that her dreams might expose her. After attending Audrey’s birthday ball, Hibbert returned home, and Audrey began her first treatment session with World.

• Audrey accepted World’s request to meet that night above the gray fog after arranging for Mr. Fool to conceal their appearances and remove restrictions.
• A gray rat warned Hibbert that Church of Evernight Beyonders were investigating the neighborhood and might discover her problem through her dreams.
• Hibbert attended Audrey’s birthday ball with her parents and was struck by Audrey’s beauty, leaving the gathering eager to pursue more powerful abilities.
• After the ball, Audrey entered a confessional above the gray fog and began treating World with her Psychiatrist ability.
• Audrey used Placate on World and asked whether he had experienced any nightmares lately.

Klein received treatment from Audrey for his nightmares, recognized his fear of powerful and uncertain enemies, and regained his composure. After Audrey wished him happiness and Klein noticed progress digesting his Marionettist potion, the Nighthawks discovered that Gehrman Sparrow was linked to the missing servant and received a telegram casting doubt on Dawn Dantès’s identity.

• Audrey guided Klein through his fears, and he identified the beings behind his nightmares as unknown, overwhelming forces, including the Goddess, Zaratul, and the transparent maggots.
• Klein asked how to face powerful enemies and uncertain allies, and Audrey advised him to evade danger, find helpers, pray to a deity, and keep resisting.
• Audrey used Placate to restore Klein’s mental state, then asked him to wish her happiness as her consultation fee; Klein did so, and she wished him happiness in return.
• After leaving the gray fog, Klein realized he had digested much more of his Marionettist potion and considered how manipulating enemies through marionettes might fit its acting principles.
• Soest told Leonard and the Nighthawks that the missing servant had been found and that clothes belonging to Gehrman Sparrow had been discovered in the room where the servant was held.
• A telegram from the Desi County Nighthawks reported that Dawn Dantès’s identity was false and that he had spent the previous ten years on the Southern Continent.

The Nighthawks concluded that Gehrman Sparrow could have infiltrated Saint Samuel Cathedral using Wraith possession, teleportation, and disguises, while Klein planned his next steps as Dawn Dantès. Leonard found links among Sherlock Moriarty, Gehrman Sparrow, and the Great Smog investigation, then began to suspect they were the same person.

• Soest explained how Gehrman Sparrow could have reached Backlund and infiltrated the cathedral, leading the Red Gloves to focus their investigation on him.
• Klein planned to find a new marionette, pursue potion materials, and investigate the Great Smog while avoiding direct danger from 0-08.
• Walter told Klein that attending an East Balam Veterans Officers Club event with Macht would signal his political leanings, and Klein decided to go and donate five hundred pounds.
• Leonard discovered that Sherlock Moriarty had investigated Talym Dumont's death and connected Sherlock, Gehrman, and Dawn to the organization that worshiped The Fool.
• Leonard noticed that Sherlock left Backlund in late December and Gehrman first appeared in early January, then began comparing Sherlock's portrait with possible disguises.

Leonard Mitchell suspected that Sherlock Moriarty was his former teammate Klein Moretti and set out to investigate. In Backlund, Dawn Dantès joined the East Balam Veteran Officers Club and was offered a dangerous arms-selling deal, while Leonard ended the chapter standing before a grave in Tingen.

• Leonard compared Sherlock Moriarty’s records with his memories of Klein Moretti, and the Parasite agreed that the two men resembled each other.
• Leonard left Saint Samuel Cathedral to investigate whether Sherlock Moriarty was impersonating Klein or had been hiding his true identity.
• Dawn Dantès joined the East Balam Veteran Officers Club as an associate member and donated five hundred pounds.
• Colonel Calvin offered Dawn Dantès retired guns and cannons to sell to tribes and resistance forces in West Balam, and Dawn agreed to consider the proposal.
• Leonard stood silently before a grave in Raphael Cemetery in Tingen City.

Klein interpreted a dream as a warning that Leonard had uncovered his connection to Gehrman Sparrow and investigated his grave, while also weighing a proposed arms-smuggling deal and ways to learn about West Balam. Leonard entered Klein’s dream to question him about the infiltration, and Klein admitted Gehrman Sparrow had acted alone while leaving his motive unexplained.

• Klein dreamed of a crimson-lit gravestone and concluded Leonard might have dug up his grave in Tingen after tracing his identities.
• Klein decided Leonard could not easily share his suspicions with the Nighthawks and planned to warn him again if needed.
• Klein suspected the arms-smuggling proposal from the East Balam Veteran Officers Club was a test and planned to seek information from Danitz and Ma'am Hermit.
• Soest briefed the Red Gloves that Gehrman Sparrow was alive but not in this world, and Leonard withheld his lead about Dawn Dantès.
• Leonard entered Dawn Dantès's dream to question him about the infiltration, and Klein denied that his group was responsible, saying Gehrman Sparrow acted alone.
• When Leonard asked what Gehrman Sparrow had wanted, Klein touched his temple and asked what Leonard thought.

Leonard confronted Dawn Dantès in a dream about Klein Moretti’s past, and Dawn admitted that Klein sought revenge on Lanarvus and Ince Zangwill. After Leonard woke, he told Pallez Zoroast what he had learned but chose not to expose Dawn or Klein for now.

• Leonard deduced that Klein had twice entered the Nighthawks’ and Church’s restricted areas while searching for an item, and Dawn challenged his theories about the Antigonus Family Notebook.
• Dawn explained that Klein had returned from the dead because of the Notebook’s curse and was seeking revenge on Lanarvus and Ince Zangwill.
• Dawn asked Leonard to tell Pallez Zoroast that someone from their organization had encountered Amon in the Forsaken Land of the Gods.
• Leonard woke and reported Dawn’s claims to Pallez, who wondered whether The Fool might be an old friend of his.
• Leonard decided not to reveal what he knew about Dawn and Klein, and murmured that Klein had left him behind.

Klein asked Danitz to gather information on West Balam and warn him about the Church of Evernight, then used a confession at Saint Samuel Grand Cathedral to reveal his planned arms dealings to the Church. Afterward, Leonard learned of the plan and wondered what Klein was trying to do.

• Klein sent Danitz a request for information on West Balam and warned him to be careful of the Church of Evernight.
• Danitz sought advice about West Balam and worried that several churches and the military were targeting him.
• On the way to Saint Samuel Grand Cathedral, Klein asked Richardson about East and West Balam and heard about their poverty, religious conversions, and renewed worship of Death.
• Klein confessed to a bishop that he intended to help sell weapons to West Balam, and the bishop urged him to follow his heart without harming innocents.
• Klein saw Daly at the cathedral, then left as the white doves in the square took flight.
• Leonard heard that Dawn Dantès planned to enter the arms trade with the authorities and wondered what Klein was trying to do.

Klein received Baron Sindras, who tried to buy his three-percent stake in the Coim Company, but Klein refused because he had promised Ma'am Mary. After Sindras left, Klein arranged discreet protection and prepared to contact Member of Parliament Macht about a small arms deal; Xio then accepted Walter’s commission to covertly guard Klein.

• Walter told Klein that Baron Sindras wanted to visit, and Klein agreed to meet him in the sunlit sitting room.
• Baron Sindras praised Klein’s Southern Continent experience and offered to buy his Coim Company stake, but Klein refused to break his word to Ma'am Mary.
• After Sindras departed, Walter suggested hiring bodyguards, and Klein agreed to have two protect him covertly.
• Klein asked Walter to invite Member of Parliament Macht and his family to dinner so he could discuss accepting the military’s test and arranging a small-scale arms deal.
• Xio watched Viscount Stratford’s carriage, then returned to the tavern and accepted Walter’s commission to protect Klein covertly.

Xio recruited Fors to help protect Dawn Dantès, while Klein dealt with Creeping Hunger and wrote to Azik and Frank. The chapter ended when police told Klein that Caron had committed suicide and accused him in a note of forcing Caron to sell his shares and tormenting him.

• Xio invited Fors to join her commission protecting Dawn Dantès, and Fors agreed.
• Klein found that Creeping Hunger's negative effects remained unchanged and wrote to Azik asking how to reseal it.
• Klein wrote to Frank requesting more mushrooms, and Reinette Tinekerr agreed to deliver the letter after revealing she had marked Frank.
• Xio and Fors arrived at Dawn Dantès's house and planned how to guard him covertly.
• Police officers told Klein that Caron had died by suicide and left a note accusing Klein of coercing and tormenting him.

Klein was taken to the police station after Caron’s death and a suicide note accused him of forcing Caron to sell his shares. Baron Sindras bailed him out and revealed the smear campaign he had planned, while denying involvement in Caron’s death and admitting he had prepared an offer for the shares.

• Klein suspected Baron Sindras had framed him, then sent Walter to warn Sindras and asked his lawyer to handle the investigation.
• Xio decided to follow Klein to the police station, while Fors remarked that nobles and the wealthy were frightening.
• Klein refused to answer questions until his lawyer arrived, then said he had met Caron only once and left after Baron Sindras posted bail.
• Sindras thanked Klein for his warning and explained he had planned to ruin Klein’s reputation with false accusations if he had accepted the offer to cooperate.
• Klein reasoned that Sindras would have forced Caron to sell rather than kill him, and Sindras admitted Caron had finalized the sale before he could react.
• Xio returned to 160 Böklund Street and told Fors that nothing had happened, then repeated that nobles and the wealthy were frightening.

Klein realized that the Coim Company share deal was part of a plot to frame Baron Sindras and decided to get out of the affair. He donated his shares’ future returns to an education fund, while Xio and Fors grew suspicious of butler Walter after sensing black magic near his room.

• Klein concluded that Caron’s sale of shares had been bait in a conspiracy and warned Baron Sindras, then decided to extricate himself from the deal.
• Xio sensed black magic on the first floor and discovered that the disturbance came from Walter’s room, but the sign of magic vanished before she could investigate.
• Xio and Fors chose to watch Walter and agreed to leave Klein a warning if they could not determine the butler’s intentions within three days.
• Klein visited Bishop Electra at Saint Samuel Cathedral and offered his Coim Company shares to establish an education fund for the poor.
• Bishop Electra praised Klein’s donation and said he would report it to the archbishop and arrange a charity dinner to attract other donors.

Frank Lee prepared a letter and experimental mushrooms for Gehrman, while Audrey advanced to Sequence 6 and tested her new abilities. At dinner, Klein received Frank’s mushroom-laden letter just as fried mushrooms were served, leaving him visibly uneasy.

• Frank Lee wrote to Gehrman about his new mushrooms, warning that they had to be boiled and could become dangerous if grown on monster flesh and blood.
• Audrey drank the Hypnotist potion and successfully advanced to Sequence 6, gaining enhanced physical abilities, hypnosis, and psychological invisibility.
• Audrey tested her new powers with Susie, then agreed to attend a Church charity gala and asked Annie to investigate its educational fund.
• Fors and Xio hid in a restaurant pantry to protect Dawn Dantès during dinner with Member of Parliament Macht’s family, and Xio briefly sensed something unusual.
• Klein received Frank’s letter from his messenger without the other diners noticing, then reacted uneasily when the waiter served fried mushrooms.

While secretly protecting Dawn Dantès at dinner, Fors and Xio discovered that Hibbert seemed able to sense their presence. As Dawn and the Macht family left the restaurant, an attacker tried to shoot Macht amid a startled horse’s charge, but Fors tripped him before he could fire.

• Klein signaled his interest in joining the arms trade and told Macht he had donated his Coim Company shares to a Church fund for poor children.
• Hibbert sensed something unusual in the pantry, returned after dinner to investigate the cupboard, and found Fors and Xio gone.
• Fors and Xio spotted an agitated man near the restaurant, and Xio warned Fors to watch him as Dawn and the Macht family emerged.
• A startled horse charged toward the restaurant while the middle-aged man drew a revolver and aimed at Macht.
• Fors made the attacker fall, causing him to drop his revolver, and the bodyguards subdued both him and the horse.
• The attacker blamed Macht and others for his factory’s bankruptcy, his child’s death, and his wife’s suicide.

After a failed attack on Macht, Klein wondered whether Backlund's calm concealed a growing supernatural threat. Fors dreamed of a sealed treasure and later discovered Richardson secretly praying to Death, leaving her concerned for Dawn Dantès.

• Macht arranged for the police and reporters after a middle-aged man attacked him, while Klein left with Richardson and questioned why Macht had been targeted.
• Klein returned home, worried that danger was building in Backlund but unable to restore Creeping Hunger's power while his bodyguards were present.
• Hibbert asked a gray rat whether her father had acted wrongly, and the rat explained that Dawn Dantès might have a supernatural bodyguard.
• Fors dreamed of a palace full of sealed treasures and a symbol of fate and concealment, then told Xio she sensed a secret nearby.
• Fors found Richardson performing a Spirit Dance and praying to Death for protection.

Fors and Xio discussed secrets around Dawn Dantès and Fors's strange dream, while Klein negotiated an arms deal and received visitors. After dinner, Klein discovered a letter from his dismissed bounty hunters, who claimed they had uncovered something important about him.

• Fors told Xio that Dantès's valet Richardson had prayed to Death, and Xio remarked that Dantès's household seemed full of secrets.
• Klein met Calvin and Macht at the East Balam Veteran Officers Club, agreed to buy a batch of arms for fifteen thousand pounds, and planned to head to the Southern Continent in early July.
• Xio spotted Viscount Stratford arriving at the club, then she and Fors watched Dawn Dantès leave.
• Ma'am Mary apologized to Klein and offered to buy his Coim Company shares, but Klein said he had donated them to establish an education fund.
• After Walter reported that the bounty hunters had been sent away, Klein found their letter saying they had entered his bedroom and discovered something they needed to tell him.

Klein tested the unusual mushrooms Frank Lee had given him, negotiated limits on Creeping Hunger’s praise of the True Creator, and waited for Azik’s reply. At a charity gala, he recognized Audrey as Miss Justice, tried to conceal his reaction, and noticed a golden-haired dog watching him from the doorway.

• Klein tested the mushrooms with his blood above the gray fog and confirmed that they attacked it, then used the mushrooms to bargain with Creeping Hunger over how often it could praise the True Creator.
• Klein divined that he faced little immediate danger and tentatively confirmed that Beyonder factors had influenced Caron's suicide.
• Klein arrived at the Church of Evernight’s charity gala with Richardson and recognized Audrey as Miss Justice when she entered.
• Audrey noticed Klein’s unusual reaction and wondered what he was concealing, while Klein tried to behave as Dawn Dantès.
• Klein sensed someone watching him and saw a large golden-haired dog crouching in the doorway’s shadows.

At an Evernight Church charity gala, Klein used a heartfelt speech to launch a bursary fund for poor children while navigating the attention of Audrey Hall and the gathering’s Spectators. Audrey decided to donate, but remained curious about Klein’s concealed reaction to seeing her.

• Klein recognized Audrey Hall as Miss Justice and learned from Macht that she was Earl Hall’s daughter and a celebrated heiress.
• Saint Anthony arrived, and Klein struggled to control the fear his presence inspired before the charity gala’s prayers and choir ceremony began.
• Bishop Electra invited Klein to speak, and Klein described impoverished children’s hardships before pledging his Coim Company shares, worth 15,000 pounds, to establish a bursary fund.
• Audrey judged Klein’s sympathy and donation sincere, wondered whether he had recognized her necklace, and planned to ask Susie what she had observed.
• Audrey offered to donate 1,000 pounds, while Earl Hall wrote a check for 10,000 pounds.

At a charity gala, Klein met Earl Hall and impressed him with his generosity and experience, while Audrey grew suspicious of Dawn Dantès. After deciding to investigate him before joining the educational fund, Audrey attended the Tarot Club’s Monday gathering.

• Audrey donated 1,000 pounds, while Klein greeted Saint Anthony and praised the Evernight Goddess’s teachings.
• Earl Hall and Klein discussed their donations and the poor, and Earl Hall suggested they might work together in the future.
• On the carriage ride home, Earl Hall invited Audrey to consider joining the educational charity fund, and she said she would think about it.
• Audrey asked Susie about Dawn Dantès, and they agreed that he seemed wary and was performing a role; Audrey decided to have him investigated.
• At three o’clock on Monday, Audrey greeted Mr. Fool at the Tarot Club.

At a Tarot Club meeting, The Fool Klein read three of Emperor Roselle’s diary pages and discovered the personal meaning of the word “Homeland.” He understood that the Mystery Queen Bernadette had supplied the pages to reveal the protective characters Roselle had left for her, then asked The Hermit Cattleya for her question.

• The Hermit Cattleya gave The Fool Klein three diary pages from Emperor Roselle’s early years.
• Roselle recorded meeting Oneg, a Feysac man who left to search for the mythical homeland of the Giants, and wrote “Homeland” after hearing his story.
• Roselle investigated whether the elves had come from Earth, but found no evidence supporting that theory and wrote that he had dreamed of his homeland.
• Roselle wrote that he taught his daughter Bernadette the Chinese characters for “Homeland” as a protective incantation and a bond with his past.
• Klein realized why Bernadette had provided the pages, then asked Cattleya what her question was.

At the Tarot Club, members discussed mystical items and a trade before Justice Audrey commissioned an investigation into Dawn Dantès. The World Gehrman Sparrow raised his hand to take the mission, while Fors, who knew a great deal about Dawn, had been about to volunteer.

• Cattleya asked Mr. Fool what the Chinese symbols “故” and “乡” meant, and he explained that together they meant one's hometown.
• Alger told Gehrman Sparrow that the mystical item made from the Ocean Songster characteristic would be ready that week.
• Emlyn offered Derrick an artificial Vampire Sequence 5 characteristic in exchange for a Sequence 5 potion formula, and Gehrman Sparrow sold him the Light Priest formula for 5,000 pounds.
• Audrey commissioned an investigation into Dawn Dantès, citing his presence at two recent Backlund incidents and his large donation to the Church of Evernight.
• Fors recognized Dawn Dantès and prepared to volunteer, but Gehrman Sparrow raised his hand before she could speak.

At the Tarot Club, Gehrman Sparrow revealed that he and his companions shared the identity of Dawn Dantès, alarming Fors and prompting Audrey to recognize a chance to help from the sidelines. The members suspected that major events were brewing in Backlund, while Audrey decided to join the Loen Charity Bursary Foundation.

• Audrey asked whether World would accept the investigation mission, and Gehrman Sparrow answered that Dawn Dantès was an identity.
• Gehrman explained that he and his companions shared the Dawn Dantès identity and that he sometimes disguised himself as the wealthy merchant.
• Fors realized that Dawn Dantès was Gehrman Sparrow and feared that her earlier remarks and actions had put her at risk.
• Audrey connected Gehrman to Dawn Dantès and decided to join the Loen Charity Bursary Foundation so she could help from the sidelines.
• Alger and Cattleya concluded that something major was about to happen in Backlund.

At the Tarot Club meeting, The World warned Fors that the treasure in her dream was a trap linked to the Hermits of Fate, while Klein resolved to deal with the hidden demigod near Böklund Street. The meeting ended with Cattleya promising intelligence and Derrick reporting progress on the former Chief’s mausoleum.

• Alger and Cattleya decided to investigate the cases involving Baron Sindras and Macht, while Emlyn asked about Dawn Dantès and The World refused to explain further.
• The World asked Derrick whether Trickmasters existed in the City of Silver, and Derrick agreed to check records and ask around.
• Fors described a dream treasure bearing symbols of fate and concealment, and The World showed her Lanarvus’s badge and warned that the treasure was a trap connected to the Hermits of Fate.
• Klein realized that a Marauder-pathway demigod was likely hiding near Böklund Street and had influenced Fors through her dream, so he planned to alert his poet classmate.
• Cattleya promised to provide the requested West Balam intelligence, and Derrick reported that the Council of Six planned to open the former Chief’s mausoleum and recover its characteristics.

Klein used Arrodes to locate Leonard Mitchell and the Marauder demigod hiding near Hibbert Macht, then had the mirror warn the demigod to leave the neighborhood. Arrodes’s intrusive question provoked the weakened rat into anger, and the mirror struck it with lightning while Hibbert watched.

• Derrick set himself a goal of making another friend before the next Tarot Gathering, and The World offered to help with matters concerning Death.
• Klein realized he had no way to contact Leonard, so he summoned Arrodes and learned Leonard would stay at 7 Pinster Street.
• Klein asked Arrodes where the Marauder demigod near Hibbert Macht was hiding and saw that the demigod had parasitized a gray rat in Hibbert’s bedroom.
• Klein instructed Arrodes to warn the rat about a Marauder-pathway angel and Amon roaming nearby, and the mirror relayed the warning.
• Arrodes asked the rat an embarrassing question about its mating desires; when the rat tried to leave, invisible restraints held it in place and silvery-white lightning struck it as Hibbert watched.

Hibbert moved the charred rat claiming to be her teacher to her family’s suburban manor after it said a mirror divination had attracted an unknown being. Klein learned from Arrodes that the rat was a demigod resisting loss of control, then received Danitz’s intelligence about West Balam and judged that traveling there alone would be too dangerous.

• Hibbert found the charred rat standing and, after it explained that a mirror divination had drawn an unknown gaze, agreed to take it to her family’s manor.
• Arrodes told Klein it had warned the Marauder demigod and punished her with lightning, explaining that killing a weakened demigod could provoke a loss of control.
• Klein accepted an honorary position on the Loen Charity Bursary Foundation’s board and agreed to attend its formal establishment.
• Danitz went to Edwina to ask about West Balam, and she described the region’s competing powers and factions.
• Klein read Danitz’s report and decided not to travel to West Balam unless Mr. Azik accompanied him.