For Firespine is at the heart of this. Athenais crossed five rivers of Hades, of which the last, ubiquitous one was fire. Annabel Bekele built a network spine for a company called Fire Judges, then designed with her grandfather a game which reflects Neith’s own reality, even names her—another of Hunter’s all-too-clever guesses. Kyriakos, playing the game, unlocked a secret room which explained everything—and had already released a predatory monster into the global network. Lönnrot—Gnomon—showed her the same door in the underground tunnels, and all of Hunter’s protagonists went on journeys of catabasis, down into hell and out again, bringing someone with them, resurrecting and changing.