The late-game reckoning with what the Eagle Bearer has built — the relationships, the reputation, the specific shape of the Greek world she has moved through. Legacy as what survives rather than what is left behind is the distinction between intention and effect: you cannot control what you leave behind, only what you do. What survives is the record of the doing, the choices that persisted past the moment of their making.

The Cult is nearly gone. The family situation is approaching resolution, in whichever form the choices produced. The odyssey is not yet over, but the shape of what it will have been is becoming visible from this elevation.