Following the tragic and sudden suicide of General Hanazawa, Ogata and Tsurumi debrief.
And he shall cleanse the house with the blood of the bird, and with the running water, and with the living bird, and with the cedar wood, and with the hyssop, and with the scarlet:
But he shall let go the living bird out of the city into the open fields, and make an atonement for the house: and it shall be clean.
Peter gives Phil a bath.
They are not in Zhoujiatai anymore. Tang Fan can tell that much from this little. Whether they've come north into the mountain, or gone south into the plains, though — or ended up somewhere else entirely, east or west by providence — he'd need to see the stars, first, to even have a hope of a guess at it.
So much for simple and for supposed good fortune. What a day they've had, and what a night it's apparently promised them.
Peter lays traps, and is caught in them.
Hickey is dying, and Gibson has seen better days.
Tomorrow, then, Hal comes again. Satisfaction is not requital, and once is not enough.
On Giedi Prime, a captured Paul considers his enemies and his allies.
No inch of his bared skin is a revelation to Tang Fan, but stripping before him still feels like an unveiling, marital. A deification of the profane.