Open Threads

• What are Acuras and Selina, and what knowledge do they intend to extract from Helena?

• Can Helena trust their promise to release her after taking her to Keph?

• How will the Harbingers reach Keph and recover Helena without provoking her captors?

• How did the white-clad strangers destroy the Rusticulum so easily?

• Who created the Rusticulum, and what corrupted celestial power sustains its warriors?

• Why did the Rusticulum count the children and later count backward as it withdrew?

• What became of the mother and the two children who remained in the ruined village?

• What history connects Helena's shadow folk to Acuras and Selina?

• Can Atherin and the seven rescued children reach the Twilight Temple safely?

• What force sounded the horn that summoned the Rusticulum west?