The air is heavy and thick with silence and tension as infection radiates and fades from the surroundings of the Black Egg. There is no fighting. There is no sound.

Hornet stirs from her unconsciousness, groaning a second as she begins to rise and turns her head to see the scene—the fate of her last friend and family, the fate of Hallownest itself. What would become of the future now? Had Ghost done it? Or were they doomed?