Lyra wakes alone in an unfamiliar room in Tartarus and follows the sound of screaming to find Boone with both legs shattered at the femur. The Titans work quickly to reset the bones before his immortal healing locks them in the wrong position. Persephone puts Boone under with sleeping dust, and the Titans bind his wounds. When they finally notice Lyra in the doorway, Persephone unleashes her fury, revealing that Boone attempted Zeus’s Lock alone after Lyra was gone for a week. Unable to defend herself against the accusation, Lyra lets Persephone shove her out of the room and bar the door. She waits in the hallway, determined to stay for as long as it takes.

The Titans trickle out one by one over the following hours. Most are cool or openly critical, believing Lyra wasted her time meddling with the past. Cronos alone stays and sits beside her in the hallway. Their comfortable silence gradually becomes conversation. Lyra raises her growing suspicion that Oceanus is the one maintaining the glamours on the gods, given that he seems to have inside knowledge of events in Tartarus.