Callum

While Dalton shows the candidates around the Society’s building, a “British country manor house” (73) located in London, Atlas informs them that they will gain access to the archives in stages, as their training progresses. For now, he explains that the six of them will have to come up with a security protocol to protect the library. They have a few hours to decide on a system before they meet for dinner.

Reina

The group sets out to discuss the security protocol, but they are at odds. In the antagonistic conversation that ensues, they share their specialties with the others and a divide begins to emerge between the physical medeians (Nico, Libby, and Reina) and the metaphysical ones (Callum, Parisa, and Tristan).

Nico

As they walk to dinner, Nico pulls Libby aside to make an alliance. After dinner, the candidates are led to their rooms, which are laid out in a single wing of the house. Nico goes to bed and meets Gideon in his sleep to check on him. While in Nico’s dreams, they notice wards protecting the house’s perimeter, but their conversation is cut short when Reina wakes Nico up. She warns him that there are intruders in the house, and together they wake the others.