( Emilia does not blame him for his reaction. It is not unlike her own, when she first completed her tally. It burns inside of her, her failure with the first beacon. The knowledge they are pawns in a game they did not consent to playing. It chips away at her, day by day. )

My plan is to ensure the year's mark does not come to pass. But that depends on the beacon we've been promised here. ( Go east, is the first thing she and Wrath were told upon waking in the mines. And east they keep, for every faint beacon they cannot wake. )