Two timelines are collapsing into each other, and neither one is going to come out clean. On Earth, Vra'shek has crossed a line that Cylas is quietly, methodically piecing together, and what Cylas does with that knowledge is its own kind of threat. Meanwhile, a thousand years in the past, Freydis has found the source of everything. The name behind the sabotage. The man she loved. And a choice she can't take back. This week, the Covenant stops being history and becomes something personal.

Freydis walked into that chamber carrying grief and a Viking blade, and she walked out alone. Darin-Dis gave her the Covenant's justification, reason over heart, and she answered it the only way she had left. Back on Earth, Cylas is standing at a warehouse door with a hand on his pistol, knowing exactly what Vra'shek did, choosing observation over  ...