The Artifact has been asking its question since page one — Creator or Destroyer — and this week it finally stops asking and starts demanding. Castor is inside a wall of light with no way out and only one choice available to him. Outside that wall, the people who trust him are starting to wonder if they should. And across time, Freydis is learning that the thing she's bonded to has its own agenda — and it's been planning further ahead than anyone realized.