Blackwater Islands e sea, silver —

she accepts his olive branch and ingram is content to do exactly as he proposed: let the past be the past. it is a driving motivation on his spiritual journey; the strange weaving starseeds that have brought him to the here and now. the reading bones and the truth of praimfaya's death told to mahler. many chapters ending — some with more malice than others.

either way, they are ended.

ingram watches her depart until she is out of sight; returning his focus to covering up the cache.