Brit lies in a coma near death and Wolf is at his wits' end trying to figure out who or what the enemy truly is. Little Tatiana hears a strategic secret and dies from a mind attack. While she is brought back by the quick action of Wolf Pack medics, the incident confirms that the enemy is much more powerful and mysterious than any of them had initially believed. In this science fiction series, Wolf Ballantyne's rebel heart begins to feel revulsion for all that the rebellion has made him do and experience. The pandemic apocalypse fiction and the political intrigue of the time seem tantalisingly like what alien tyrants might impose on the world but he balks at believing that it was anything other than human greed and capriciousness at play until he begins to explore the concept of astral projection and encounters Valhalla.