In Our Wake

Amicia meets Arnaud

## Trophies

*I don't care about being safe... This is all about Hugo, Mother! I know you don't trust me, but just listen to him!*
Amicia

"**In Our Wake**" is the fifth chapter of *A Plague Tale: Requiem*.

## Plot

### Synopsis

> Along the still waterways to Marseille, the De Rune's boat was ambushed by the mercenaries they had already faced in the red city. Amicia tried to free the ship, but the gang leader Arnaud badly injured her head before Hugo unleashed the rats on their attackers to save his sister. Remaining on the shore, the siblings decided to let the ship slide away, leaving behind their mother Beatrice and Lucas, who didn't want to leave his teacher. Now Amicia and Hugo can search for the island of Hugo's dreams.
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### Summary

#### On the River

Amicia, Hugo, Lucas, Beatrice, and Joseph travel through the waterways to Marseille. There are bodies and debris from the Red City all throughout the water. Hugo, hurt by the destruction he has caused, vents to Amicia about feeling unheard. Beatrice tries to appeal to Amicia, but she protests that going to the Order's headquarters in Marseille - locking Hugo up - is not the solution.

The boat is caught in debris. Lucas and Amicia jump out and push the boat free, but it starts leaving them behind. While they find a way around to the boat, Amicia tells Lucas the island is the solution to Hugo's illness, and warns him he will have to choose between her and Beatrice soon.

They find the boat docked at a construction site, but their path back is interrupted by rats. On their way through the construction site, Amicia is overwhelmed by rats. Lucas throws her pyrite - an element that, when struck against the ground, sparks and staves off the rats - saving her life. Lucas and Amicia pass through the construction site, working together seamlessly.

#### Reaction Ferry

They return to the boat but find it blocked by a chain running across the water - a ferry. They realize they have to cross to the other side if they want to release it; Amicia can cross on the ferry, but there is something caught in the mechanisms beneath the dock. She ventures beneath and wades through grotesque water, surrounded by corpses. She pulls a corpse out of the mechanisms and Lucas hauls the ferry over. She rides it across.

Amicia shoots down the ferry's counterweight, destroying the pontoons she and Lucas are on. Joseph says he will dock at the floodgates ahead; they both have to find their own ways back to the boat.

#### Bridge Under Construction

Amicia has to cross a massive stone bridge that is still under construction. Just as she has a clear path back to the boat, Lucas shouts for help; he is being cornered by mercenaries. Amicia runs to the boat and gets behind Joseph's crossbow - she shoots the two men and helps Lucas back to the boat.

#### Ambush

A large man in full body armor arrives on horseback on a cliff overlooking the boat; it is Arnaud, the leader of the mercenaries she has been running into throughout the Red City, and he wants revenge. Amicia sets the boat off down the river. As they rush down the river, Beatrice, Lucas, and Hugo take shelter in the boat's cabin while Joseph steers. Amicia covers him in a frenzy, killing around two dozen mercenaries. Beatrice pleads and orders Amicia to take cover in the cabin, but she refuses.

#### Grapples

Joseph is shot and killed. A grapple pulls the boat off course. The boat is forced to the shore. Amicia takes the crossbow and runs to free the boat, killing another group of the mercenaries on her way. Just when she reaches the ropes for the grapples, Arnaud intercepts her. She can't harm him due to his armor, so she runs.

He chases her at first, then says he will go for her family instead in order to draw her out. She intercepts him just as he reaches the shore, and challenges him. He hits her on the head with the butt of his sword. On the boat, Lucas watches on while Beatrice holds back Hugo. As Arnaud approaches Amicia for the killing blow, Hugo breaks free and runs toward them. He summons a horde of rats, which chase Arnaud off. The boat breaks free and starts to drift off. Amicia staggers to Hugo's side. Beatrice calls for them to join them quickly, but Amicia and Hugo share a look before watching the boat drift off, leaving them alone on the shore.

## Gallery

The boat, bridge, and construction siteJoseph's boat in the waterways

Navigation

* I – Under a New Sun
* II – Newcomers
* III – A Burden of Blood
* IV – Protector's Duty
* V – **In Our Wake**
* VI – Leaving All Behind
* VII – Felons
* VIII – A Sea of Promises
* IX – Tales and Revelations
* X – Bloodline
* XI – The Cradle of Centuries
* XII – The Life We Deserve
* XIII – Nothing Left
* XIV – Healing Our Wounds
* XV – Dying Sun
* XVI – King Hugo
* XVII – Legacy of the de Rune Family