Aurelia returned to her ancestral villa and entered the Seer's Chamber an ancient room of mirrors and echoes.
There, she found her younger self waiting.
"What if you're wrong?" the mirror-Aurelia asked.
"Then I'll be wrong with my heart intact," the real Aurelia answered.
She placed her hand to the mirror and a vision surged into her mind. Elian, grown, standing over a battlefield.
And behind him... no Lucien.
Only ash.