The family revelation in full — what Alexios has become, what the Cult made of him, the specific damage done to the brother Kassandra was separated from at Sparta. The truth of it does not arrive clean. It arrives as the sea arrives: with weight, with pressure, with the specific quality of something that fills every available space and demands that you either find a way to breathe inside it or surrender.

The dragging under is not death. It is the adjustment required when something you believed about the world turns out to be different from what you believed. Kassandra has been building toward this truth for twenty-nine sessions. The building did not prepare her for what it feels like when it arrives.