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The Devils
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Content Warning: This section of the guide includes discussion of religious discrimination, gender discrimination, ableism, substance use, graphic violence, illness, and death.
Part 1: “Worst Princess Ever”
Part 1, Chapter 1 Summary: “Saint Aelfric’s Day”
Despite allocating a five-hour buffer to get through the Holy City, Brother Diaz runs late for his audience with the pope at the Celestial Palace due to the crowd gathered for Saint Aelfric’s Day. As he watches the mix of sacred devotion and squalid revelry around his carriage, Diaz urges his indifferent driver to speed up, but the driver warns that it’s useless. Diaz prays using his vial, a relic of Saint Beatrix, to help him make his appointment with the pope on time. Something then crashes onto the roof of the carriage.
Part 1, Chapter 2 Summary: “How It Goes”
A woman named Alex flees her pursuers by jumping on Brother Diaz’s carriage before falling into the gutter. Hurt, she heads into the fish market to escape but is cornered in an alley by men who have come to collect on her debts. Alex tries to pay them back with a fake holy relic, but they mock and beat her.
The men stop when a wealthy man who identifies himself as Duke Michael of Nicaea appears with his servant Eusebius. Duke Michael claims Alex is Princess Alexia Pyrogennetos, the long-lost heir to the Serpent Throne of Troy.
