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The Fallen & the Kiss of Dusk
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Part 5-EpilogueChapter Summaries & Analyses
Content Warning: This section of the guide includes discussion of death, graphic violence, and animal death.
Part 5: “Divinity” - Part 6: “Mortality”
Part 5, Interlude Summary
“A god has no need of a mortal past” (513); thus, no tales of the past are recounted.
Part: 5, Chapter 68 Summary: “Mische”
Mische remembers a conversation that she had with Atroxus long ago, in which he told her that he experiences everything at once as a god. Following that conversation, Mische has always wondered how gods can care for all mortals when they see so much.
Mische and Saescha fall into the nothingness of the underworld, but Mische is pulled out by the souls of the dead, Vincent among them. He informs her that Asar’s ascension has stopped the decay of the underworld but that more threats remain. Mische wants to give up, but Vincent claims that he has helped her on behalf of Acaeja, the god Oraya’s mother served, and that Mische must follow through on her mission so that Oraya can survive. Vincent informs Mische that she has a fragment of Alarus inside her—a remnant of the thwarted resurrection spell—and that the underworld, the House of Death, has claimed her as their queen. The dead offer her Asar’s sword, which has been reforged for Mische and depicts a phoenix on its hilt. When she grasps it, an heir mark that is a twin to Asar’s appears on her arm.
