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Alchemical Supplies from Saoirse and Emelya's efforts.

As the Dreamers scramble to prepare defenses, the Atlanti forces settle in for their siege, Gwendolyn faces a figure from her past, and Doc trailblazes Mercy’s path.  Réalta decides on a course of action.

## Plot:

The Episode opens where it left off, with Lord Beatha storming away from his meeting with the enemy commander and making his way to meet with his advisors in the war room, leaving the Dreamers to their preparations.

Saoirse runs off to supervise the creation of Alchemical weapons, Doc sends word to his order calling for more healers to come to Synjalo’s vicinity, Gwendolyn uses her Sending Stone to send word to her contacts in the Northlands asking for aid against the Aachen forces.  Réalta begins work on a bucket brigade and brings smoke-generating supplies to the Gatehouse in the event that she needs to hold it against enemy troops.  She also meets up with the captain of the guard to discuss strategies for bringing down the Skywheels and Dragons.

Emelya makes time to meet with Lady Owena the Ephemeral, and they verbally spar while Emelya tries to get her to help convince the Fey to lend their assistance to the beleaguered Caerle’on.

Gwendolyn discusses world events with her family via the Sending Stone.

Doc rises from his rest to send his letter, and runs into Joey on his way out.  He and she flirt for a bit and then she confides in him that she’s planning on skipping town before the fighting starts.

Lord Beatha sends a letter to the Dragon Lord, confirming his attendance of the duel in two day’s time, at dawn.

Saoirse and Emelya meet up to discuss the logistics of crafting Flame Gel for use in siege defense.

Réalta takes a break from her preparations in order to locate Mance, who is in the armory getting his armor adjusted.  She expresses concern for his and Warbler’s safety, and gives him her other leather strip with an instruction that now he needs to survive in order to give it back to her.  They also reminisce over Captain Tyr, and she calls Mance an asshole, then says that is why she likes him.

Gwendolyn is ambushed on the street by her ex-husband, who tries to grab her from behind, but she outmaneuvers him and then slaps him across the face.  She continues with some more physical abuse to him while interrogating him about why he was following her.  They go back and forth with an argument for a while, and then Gwendolyn kisses him.  They return to the argument and then she kisses him again.  She then breaks the kiss off to ask him what it is that he thinks he knows that she doesn’t know.  He repeatedly maintains that Gwendolyn should get out of town.  She tries unsuccessfully to badger him into revealing who he is working for, and eventually the two part.

Gwendolyn immediately goes to find the rest of the Dreamers and fill them in on what she has learned.

Doc waits until night falls and then slips out of the city through one of the side doors.  He is stopped by Aachen soldiers who question him about his intentions, but he convinces them that he is not a threat, nor is he a soldier.  They allow him to continue on to the vagrant encampment, provided that he not return to the city afterwards.  Doc makes his way to the encampment and meets up with the occupants: a group of outcasts each with enough bloodline to grant them some ability.  Doc correctly guesses that they were visited by the Vathid and they take him in heartily when he explains his plan to use the encampment as a triage and medical center for the aftermath of the battle.  They gladly apply themselves and help Doc get his supplies ready.

A few hours after Doc’s stealthy exit, Réalta lowers herself down the city wall using the cable from her grapple shot and makes her way towards a group of Atlanti scouts.  She hails them in Spanish, and then converses with them, hoping that they might know something of what she is or the “Atlanti Judgement” that haunts her memories.  Unfortunately, the soldiers are all from Aachen and find her strange, but they suggest that she accompany them to speak with their commander.  Despite her fear of the Atlanti, Réalta agrees in the hope that she might be able to learn something more about her past.

The episode closes as Réalta is marched under armed guard towards the Atlanti army and Doc is busying himself alongside his new allies, neither aware of the tragedy that yet awaits them.